Sex differences in the longitudinal relationship of low-grade inflammation and echocardiographic measures in the Hoorn and FLEMENGHO Study

• Sharon Remmelzwaal ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: S.Remmelzwaal@amsterdamumc.nl

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology & Data Science, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3399-5836

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• Joline W. J. Beulens,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology & Data Science, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6788-5232

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• Petra J. M. Elders,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General Practice and Elderly Care Medicine, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location VUmc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Coen D. A. Stehouwer,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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• Zhenyu Zhang,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, KU Leuven Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• M. Louis Handoko,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NPA Alliance for the Promotion of Preventive Medicine (APPREMED), Mechelen, Belgium

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• Yolande Appelman,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Vanessa van Empel,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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• Stephane R. B. Heymans,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Centre for Molecular and Vascular Biology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Holland Heart House, ICIN–Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Lutgarde Thijs,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, KU Leuven Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8108-2356

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• Jan A. Staessen,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, KU Leuven Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, NPA Alliance for the Promotion of Preventive Medicine (APPREMED), Mechelen, Belgium

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• A. Johanne van Ballegooijen

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology & Data Science, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Nephrology, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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