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Affiliations

• ¹ Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• ² Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CanadaClinica di Cardiologia, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy.
• ³ Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
• ⁴ Clinica di Cardiologia, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy.
• ⁵ Cardiology Department, Loreto Mare, Napoli, Italy.
• ⁶ Queen Mary Hospital, Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
• ⁷ University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ⁸ J.W.GoetheUniversity, Frankfurt, Germany.
• ⁹ St. Jude Medical, Sylmar, CA, Zaventem, Belgium.
• ¹⁰ Clinique du Sud Luxembourg, Arlon, Belgium.
• ¹¹ Klinik für Innere Medizin - Kardiologie, Diabetologie & Nephrologie, Evangelisches Krankenhaus, Bielefeld, Germany.