Vanthienen, Jill
Petrov, Marine Vassilev
Luu, Thuy Mai http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2222-186X
Cloutier, Anik http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4543-9124
Raaijmakers, Anke http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8846-1650
Staessen, Jan A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3026-1637
Zhang, Zhenyu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3785-7417
Salaets, Thomas http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0971-5147
Laenen, Annouschka http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1371-442X
Smits, Anne http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0710-6698
Nuyt, Anne-Monique http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3791-006X
Flahault, Adrien http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4632-6332
Allegaert, Karel http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9921-5105
Article History
Accepted: 21 June 2023
First Online: 28 July 2023
Declarations
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: TS is supported by the Frans Van de Werf Fund for Clinical Cardiovascular Research for his research fellowship (2022 recipient), and V.Z.W. ‘De Kleine Hartjes’ and F.W.O. Vlaanderen. The PREMATCH study was supported by the Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT) through the SAFE-PEDRUG project [IWT/SBO 130033]. KU Leuven Internal Funds (STG-18–00379) supported the Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Leuven. The research activities of AS are supported by the Clinical Research and Education Council of the University Hospitals, Leuven.
: Jill Vanthienen, Marine Vassilev Petrov, Thuy Mai Luu, Anik Cloutier, Anke Raaijmakers, Jan A. Staessen, Zhenyu Zhang, Thomas Salaets, Annouschka Laenen, Anne Smits, Anne-Monique Nuyt, Adrien Flahault, and Karel Allegaert have no conflicts of interest to declare that are directly relevant to the contents of this study.
: The Ethics Committee Research (EC Research) of University Hospitals Leuven (UZ Leuven) approved the study protocol for the pooled analysis (7 January 2022; S66020). The Ethics Committee of CHU Sainte-Justine and the Université de Montréal also approved the study protocol for the pooled analysis (26 January 2022; reference number 2022-3773).
: All data pooled in this study have been previously published. These initial studies and sources were conducted following Ethics Committee approval at the individual institutes and following informed consent and, if applicable, assent.
: Not applicable.
: The corresponding author can be contacted to share the raw data based on reasonable request and a study protocol. The individual study groups remain the sole owner and controller of their datasets.
: Not applicable.
: Conceptualization: AMN, AF, TML, AR, TS, KA. Funding acquisition: KA, JAS, AR. Data curation: KA, TML. Data acquisition and verification: AMN, AF, TML, AR, JAS, KA, AC, TS. Structured search and quality assessment: JV, MVP, KA. Statistics: AL, KA. Project administration: KA, TML. Writing original draft: JV, MVP, KA. Writing – reviewing and editing: AMN, AF, TML, AR, JAS, ZZ, TS, AL, KA, JV, MVP, AC, AS. All authors have read and approved the final version of the paper.