Mancia, G
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Cha, G
Gil-Extremera, B
Harvey, P
Lewin, A J
Villa, G http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6238-7277
Kjeldsen, S E
Article History
Received: 7 October 2015
Revised: 2 March 2016
Accepted: 14 March 2016
First Online: 11 August 2016
Competing interests
: G Mancia has received speaker's or consultation fees in the last 2 years from Actavis, Bayer, Böhringer Ingelheim, Covidien, CVRx, Daiichi Sankyo, Ferrer, Lilly, Medtronic Vascular Inc., Menarini Int., Merck Serono, MSD, Novartis, Recordati, Sanofi, Servier, Takeda. AJ Lewin has received research grants in the last 2 years from Abbott Laboratories, AbbVie Inc., ActivX Biosciences Inc., Akros Pharma, Inc., Amarin Pharma, Inc., Amgen Inc., Amylin Pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca, Bavarian Nordic, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Catabasis, Daiichi Sankyo, Elcelyx Therapeutics, Eli Lilly and Company, Esperion Therapeutics, Forest Research Institute, Gilead Sciences, Inc., GlaxoSmithKline, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Incyte Corporation, Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., InteKrin Therapeutics, Inc., Kowa Research Institute, Inc., Merck & Co., Inc., Metabolic Solutions Development Company, N-Gene Pharmaceuticals, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., Novo Nordisk, Omthera Pharmaceuticals Inc., Pfizer Inc., Pharmacopeia, Inc., PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals, Phenomix Corporation, Pronova, Sanofi-Aventis, Sanofi Pasteur, Schering-Plough, Shionogi Inc., Surface Logix, Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., Theracos, Inc., TransTech Pharma LLC, TWI Biotechnology, Inc., VIVUS, Inc. and XOMA, LLC. P Harvey has received research grants from AstraZeneca, Merck, Pfizer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer, Ipsen, Sanofi Aventis, Novo Nordisk, Novartis, Takeda, Mitsubushi, Solvay, GlaxoSmithKline, Lilly, Lundbeck, Mundi Pharma, Proctor and Gamble Co and Jannsen. SE Kjeldsen has received lecture honoraria from Bayer, Merck Sharp & Dohme, and Takeda, and honoraria for consulting from Bayer and Takeda. G Cha, B Gil-Extremera, and G Villa declare ‘none’. Data collection, analysis and manuscript preparation were sponsored by Bayer HealthCare AG. Editorial assistance was provided by Bill Wolvey of PAREXEL International, which was contracted by the study sponsor (Bayer HealthCare AG).