Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut (Dr Hu); Departments of Biostatistics (Dr Huang) and Medicine (Drs Mayberry, Kripalani, Roumie, and Bachmann), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee; Departments of Population Health Sciences and Medicine, Duke University Medical Center and Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina (Dr Bosworth); Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri (Dr Freedland); Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee (Drs Mayberry, Kripalani, Wallston, Roumie and Bachmann); and Medicine Service, Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Healthcare System-Nashville Campus, Nashville, Tennessee (Drs Roumie and Bachmann).
Correspondence: Justin M. Bachmann, MD, MPH, Medicine Service, Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Healthcare System-Nashville Campus, 1310 24th Ave South Nashville, TN 37212 ([email protected]).
This material is based upon work supported by Career Development Award 1IK2HX003021 (Bachmann) and a Senior Career Award VA HSR&D 08-027 (Bosworth) from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Office of Research and Development, Health Services Research and Development Service. The Vanderbilt Inpatient Cohort Study was funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01 HL109388, Kripalani) and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (2 UL1 TR000445-06). The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the Department of Veterans Affairs or the US government.
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