Oparil, Suzanne
Acelajado, Maria Czarina
Bakris, George L.
Berlowitz, Dan R.
Cífková, Renata
Dominiczak, Anna F.
Grassi, Guido
Jordan, Jens
Poulter, Neil R.
Rodgers, Anthony
Whelton, Paul K.
Article History
First Online: 22 March 2018
Competing interests
: S.O. (in the previous 24 months) has received research grant support or reimbursement for travel to meetings or other nonfinancial support from Actelion Clinical Research/George Clinical, AstraZeneca AB, Bayer, Lundbeck, Novartis, Novo Nordisk and ROX Medical, has consulted for Actelion/George Clinical, Lundbeck, Novo Nordisk and ROX Medical and has served as director and/or principal investigator for SPRINT University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Clinical Center Network (CCN) and sub-investigator for the UAB CCN clinical site, for which Takeda and Arbor Pharmaceuticals donated 5% of medication used. G.L.B. served as a consultant for AbbVie, Bayer, Janssen, Merck, Relypsa and Vascular Dynamics, serves or has served as principal investigator for the FIDELIO trial (Bayer) and is a steering committee member for CALM-2-Vascular Dynamics, (CREDENCE)-Janssen and SONAR-AbbVie. G.G. has received lecture fees from Astra Zeneca and Merck. J.J. served as a consultant for Boehringer-Ingelheim, Novartis, Novo-Nordisc, Orexigen, Riemser, Sanofi, Theravance and Vivus and is cofounder of Eternygen GmbH. N.R.P. served as advisory board member (ad hoc) for Medtronic, MSD, Pfizer, Servier and Takeda (companies producing blood pressure-lowering agents and devices), received speaker honoraria from AstraZeneca, Menarini, Napi Labs and Servier, received research funding from Menarini, Pfizer and Servier, and is the president of the International Society of Hypertension. George Health Enterprises, the social enterprise arm of The George Institute for Global Health, has applied for a patent in the area of low-dose combinations on which A.R. is listed as an inventor and has received investment capital to develop fixed-dose combinations containing aspirin, statin and blood pressure-lowering drugs. A.R. is an investigator on grants for several trials of blood pressure-lowering interventions. M.C.A., D.R.B., R.C., A.F.D. and P.K.W. declare no competing interests.