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Article History

Received: 20 February 2018

Accepted: 24 April 2018

First Online: 15 May 2018

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: Alessandra Fanciulli: nothing to declare. Jens Jordan: served as advisor for Janssen-Cilag, Novartis, Novo-Nordisk and Theravance and received research support from Boston Scientific outside of the submitted work; he is also co-founder of Eternygen GmbH. Italo Biaggioni: receives support from the NIH Rare Disease Clinical Research Network (U54-NS065736), reports consultancies for Lundbeck and Theravance for development of drugs to treat orthostatic hypotension and owns a patent application for an automated inflatable binder for the treatment of orthostatic hypotension. Giovanna Calandra–Buonaura: nothing to declare. William P. Cheshire: nothing to declare. Pietro Cortelli: nothing to declare. Sabine Eschlboeck: nothing to declare. Guido Grassi: nothing to declare. Max J. Hilz: nothing to declare. Horacio Kaufmann: receives support from the NIH Rare Disease Clinical Research Network (U54-NS065736). Heinz Lahrmann: nothing to declare. Giuseppe Mancia: nothing to declare. Gert Mayer: nothing to declare. Lucy Norcliffe–Kaufmann: receives support from the NIH Rare Disease Clinical Research Network (U54-NS065736). Anne Pavy-Le Traon: nothing to declare. Satish R. Raj: receives research support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR; Ottawa, ON, Canada) grant MOP142426 and the Cardiac Arrhythmia Network of Canada (CANet; London, ON, Canada) grants SRG-15-P01-001 and SRG-17-P27-001, and the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research funded by a Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science from the National Institutes of Health (UL1 TR000445); he also reports consultancies for Lundbeck LLC and GE Healthcare. David Robertson: nothing to declare. Isabel Rocha: nothing to declare. Walter Struhal: nothing to declare. Roland Thijs: receives research support from the Dutch National Epilepsy Fund, ZonMW, NUTS Ohra Fund, Medtronic and AC Thomson Foundation, and has received fees for lectures from Medtronic, UCB and GSK. Konstantinos P. Tsioufis: nothing to declare. J. Gert Van Dijk: nothing to declare. Gregor K. Wenning: nothing to declare.