Wang, Ziqing https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4702-4681
Wallace, Danielle A.
Spitzer, Brian W.
Huang, Tianyi
Taylor, Kent D.
Rotter, Jerome I. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7191-1723
Rich, Stephen S. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3872-7793
Liu, Peter Y. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2439-0915
Daviglus, Martha L.
Hou, Lifang
Ramos, Alberto R.
Kaur, Sonya
Durda, J. Peter
González, Hector M.
Fornage, Myriam https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0677-8158
Redline, Susan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6585-1610
Isasi, Carmen R. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2700-9593
Sofer, Tamar https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8520-8860
Article History
Received: 9 September 2024
Accepted: 14 May 2025
First Online: 28 May 2025
Competing interests
: The author declare no competing of interests.
: H.C.H.S./S.O.L.: This study was approved by the institutional review boards (IRBs) at each field center, where all participants gave written informed consent, and by the Non-Biomedical IRB at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to the HCHS/SOL Data Coordinating Center. All IRBs approving the study are: Non-Biomedical IRB at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC; Einstein IRB at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Bronx, NY; IRB at Office for the Protection of Research Subjects (OPRS), University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, IL; Human Subject Research Office, University of Miami. Miami, FL; Institutional Review Board of San Diego State University. San Diego, CA. MESA: All MESA participants provided written informed consent, and the study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards at The Lundquist Institute (formerly Los Angeles BioMedical Research Institute) at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, University of Washington, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Northwestern University, University of Minnesota, Columbia University, and Johns Hopkins University. This work was approved by the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Committee on Clinical Investigators (protocol #2023P000538).