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Article History

Received: 17 May 2016

Accepted: 30 August 2016

First Online: 20 October 2016

Funding

: ACCORD was funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) contracts N01-HC-95178, N01-HC-95179, N01-HC-95180, N01-HC-95181, N01-HC-95182, N01-HC-95183, N01-HC-95184, IAA#Y1-HC-9035 and IAA#Y1-HC-1010. ACCORDION MIND was funded through an intra-agency agreement between the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and NHLBI (AG-0008), NIA contract (HSN271201000023C) and the NIA Intramural Research Program. Other components of the National Institutes of Health, including the National Institute of Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the National Eye Institute, contributed funding. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded ACCORD substudies of cost-effectiveness and health-related quality of life. General Clinical Research Centers provided support at many sites.The following companies provided study medications, equipment or supplies: Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, IL, USA); Amylin Pharmaceutical (San Diego, CA, USA); AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP (Wilmington, DE, USA); Bayer HealthCare LLC (Tarrytown, NY, USA); Closer Healthcare Inc. (Tequesta, FL, USA); GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals (Philadelphia, PA, USA); King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Bristol, TN, USA); Merck & Co., Inc. (Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA); Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (East Hanover, NJ, USA); Novo Nordisk, Inc. (Princeton, NJ, USA); Omron Healthcare, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL, USA); Sanofi U.S. (Bridgewater, NJ, USA); Schering-Plough Corporation (Kenilworth, NJ, USA). The donors of medications and devices had no role in the study design, data accrual and analysis, or manuscript preparation.

: The authors declare that there is no duality of interest associated with this manuscript.

: All authors made substantial contributions to (1) conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; (2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and (3) gave final approval of the version to be published. JDW and MEM are the guarantors of this work and, as such, had full access to all the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.

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