Philippe Meyer, MD; Gerasimos S. Filippatos, MD, PhD; Mustafa I. Ahmed, MD; Ami E. Iskandrian, MD; Vera Bittner, MD, MSPH; Gilbert J. Perry, MD; Michel White, MD; Inmaculada B. Aban, PhD;
Marjan Mujib, MBBS, MPH; Louis J. Dell’Italia, MD; Ali Ahmed, MD, MPH

Gang Hu, MD, PhD; Pekka Jousilahti, MD, PhD; Riitta Antikainen, MD, PhD;
Peter T. Katzmarzyk, PhD; Jaakko Tuomilehto, MD, PhD

Rajendra H. Mehta, MD, MS,a Renato D. Lopes, MD, PhD,a Andrea Ballotta, MD,b Alessandro Frigiola, MD,b
Michael H. Sketch, Jr., MD,a Eduardo Bossone, MD,c and Eric R. Bates, MDd Durham, NC; Milan, and Salerno, Italy;
and Ann Arbor, MI

Pamela N. Peterson, MD, MSPH,a,b,c David J. Magid, MD, MPH,b,c Ella E. Lyons, MS,c Christina L. Clarke, BS,c
Chan Zeng, PhD,c Ashley Fitzgerald, MD,b JoAnn Lindenfeld, MD,b Mikhail Kosiborod, MD,d
David Brand, MSPH,c and Frederick A. Masoudi, MD, MSPHa,b,c Denver and Aurora, CO; and Kansas City, MO

John R. Kapoor, MD, PhD, and Paul A. Heidenreich, MD, MS Palo Alto, CA

John J.V. McMurray, M.D.

Bradley G. Hammill, MS; Lesley H. Curtis, PhD;
Kevin A. Schulman, MD; David J. Whellan, MD, MHS

Cindy X. Huang1, Hocine Tighiouart1, Srinivasan Beddhu2, Alfred K. Cheung2, Johanna T. Dwyer1,
Garabed Eknoyan3, Gerald J. Beck4, Andrew S. Levey1 and Mark J. Sarnak1

Jochen Springer, Volker Adams and Stefan D. Anker

Lisa de las Fuentes, MD,* Alan D. Waggoner, MHS,* B. Selma Mohammed, MD, PHD,†
Richard I. Stein, PHD,† Bernard V. Miller III, MD,† Gary D. Foster, PHD,‡ Holly R. Wyatt, MD,§
Samuel Klein, MD,† Victor G. Davila-Roman, MD*
St. Louis, Missouri; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Denver, Colorado