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Accepted: 3 August 2022

First Online: 20 August 2022

Declarations

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: All procedures in this study were in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki declaration (and its amendments). The research protocol was approved by the Ethics Committees of the Antwerp University Hospital/University of Antwerp on the 12th of August 2019 (local project reference 19/27/331).

: The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

: All patients of the Antwerp University Hospital have consented with inclusion in retrospective analysis. All patients included at the primary care centres provided written informed consent.

: Not applicable.

: Not applicable.

: This study is supported by the Antwerp University Hospital Cardiology Research Fund, and is part of Limburg Clinical Research Center, supported by the foundation Limburg Sterk Merk, province of Limburg, Flemish government, Hasselt University, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg and Jessa Hospital. The study team would like to thank the primary care physicians who participated in this study.

: Hein Heidbuchel and Lien Desteghe did not receive any personal honoraria; they received unconditional research support through Hasselt University or University of Antwerp from Bayer, Daiichi-Sankyo, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bracco Imaging Europe, Medtronic, Boston-Scientific, Biotronik, and St. Jude Medical. None of the other authors has any personal conflicts of interest.

: All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by Arne Ballet, Cedric Hillegeer and Michiel Delesie. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Michiel Delesie and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.