Departments of *Epidemiology
†Health Care Organization and Policy
‡Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Birmingham, Alabama
§Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
Supported by a cooperative agreement U01 NS041588 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Service. Representatives of the funding agency have been involved in the review of the manuscript but not directly involved in the collection, management, analysis or interpretation of the data. Additional support was provided by grants R01 HL080477 and K24 HL111154 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Preliminary results from the current study were presented as a scientific poster in the 2017 American Heart Association Epidemiology/Life Style-Epidemiology council meeting in Portland, Oregon.
The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke or the National Institutes of Health.
E.B.L., H.Y., M.L.K., M.M.S., and P.M.: received grant support from Amgen Inc. E.B.L.: also served on an advisory board for Amgen Inc. and consulted for Novartis. H.Y.: received grant support from Bristol-Myers Squibb. The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.
Reprints: Lisandro D. Colantonio, MD, PhD, 1700 2nd Ave South, RPHB 527C, Birmingham, AL 35294-0013. E-mail: [email protected].
