Jaen, Giovana
Drowos, Joanna http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4817-5566
Hennekens, Charles H.
Levine, Robert S.
Article History
Received: 25 March 2019
Revised: 11 September 2019
Accepted: 20 September 2019
First Online: 29 October 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Ms. Jaen, Dr. Drowos, and Professor Levine report no disclosures.Professor Hennekens reported that he serves as an independent scientist in an advisory role to investigators and sponsors as Chair or Member of Data and Safety Monitoring Boards for Amgen, British Heart Foundation, Cadila, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, DalCor, Regeneron, and the Wellcome Foundation, as well as to the United States (US) Food and Drug Administration, and UpToDate; and receives royalties for authorship or editorship of 3 textbooks and as co-inventor on patents for inflammatory markers and cardiovascular disease that are held by Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and has an investment management relationship with the West-Bacon Group within SunTrust Investment Services, which has discretionary investment authority and does not own any common or preferred stock in any pharmaceutical or medical device company.
: This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors. The Baylor College of Medicine Institutional Review Board classified this research as exempt.