Caroline Jaarsma, MD; Jan Nijs, MD; Suzanne Gommers, MD;
Sebastiaan C. Bekkers, MD; Simon Schalla, MD

PATRICK R. LAWLER, MD,1,2 KRISTIAN B. FILION, PhD,3 AND MARK J. EISENBERG, MD, MPH1,4

Albert H. M. van Straten, MD,a Mohamed A. Soliman Hamad, MD,a Andre´ A. J. van Zundert, MD, PhD,
FRCA,b Elisabeth J. Martens, PhD,c Joost F. ter Woorst, MD,a Andre M. de Wolf, MD,d and
Volkher Scharnhorst, PhD

Rana Haris Bilal, MRCS, Ijas Moideen, MRCA,
Louise Pyke, MBBS, Zeid Makahleh, MRCS,
Pedro Fernandez-Jimenez, FRCA, and
Ragheb Hasan, FRCS

To the Editor:

AKIHIRO NAKAGOMI, MD,1 YOSHIHIKO SEINO, MD,2 YASUMI ENDOH, MD,1 YOSHIKI KUSAMA, MD,1
HIROTSUGU ATARASHI, MD,1 AND KYOICHI MIZUNO, MD3

MAYA GUGLIN, MD, PhD,1 AND HAMMAD KHAN, MD

Gary J. Balady, MD, FAHA, Chair; Ross Arena, PhD, FAHA; Kathy Sietsema, MD;
Jonathan Myers, PhD, FAHA; Lola Coke, RN, PhD; Gerald F. Fletcher, MD, FAHA;
Daniel Forman, MD; Barry Franklin, PhD, FAHA; Marco Guazzi, MD, PhD; Martha Gulati, MD;
Steven J. Keteyian, PhD; Carl J. Lavie, MD; Richard Macko, MD; Donna Mancini, MD;
Richard V. Milani, MD, FAHA; on behalf of the American Heart Association Exercise, Cardiac
Rehabilitation, and Prevention Committee of the Council on Clinical Cardiology; Council on
Epidemiology and Prevention; Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease; and Interdisciplinary Council
on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research