Heindl, Brittain
Howard, George
Clarkson, Stephen
Kamin Mukaz, Debora
Lackland, Daniel http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5733-6283
Muntner, Paul
Jackson, Elizabeth A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5086-0418
Article History
Received: 7 April 2022
Revised: 5 September 2022
Accepted: 30 May 2023
First Online: 5 July 2023
Ethical approval
: The REGARDS study was approved by the institutional review boards of the investigators, and all participants provided written informed consent. Ethical approval was not again needed for this secondary analysis of REGARDS data.
: EAJ currently has funding from the NIH, Amgen, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, as well as consulting fees from the American College of Cardiology, Change Healthcare Technologies, and the American Heart Association. The other authors do not have relevant financial competing interests.