Irvin, Marguerite R.
Sitlani, Colleen M.
Noordam, Raymond
Avery, Christie L.
Bis, Joshua C.
Floyd, James S.
Li, Jin
Limdi, Nita A.
Srinivasasainagendra, Vinodh
Stewart, James
de Mutsert, Renée
Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O.
Lipovich, Leonard
Kleinbrink, Erica L.
Smith, Albert http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1942-5845
Bartz, Traci M.
Whitsel, Eric A.
Uitterlinden, Andre G.
Wiggins, Kerri L. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2749-1279
Wilson, James G.
Zhi, Degui
Stricker, Bruno H.
Rotter, Jerome I.
Arnett, Donna K.
Psaty, Bruce M.
Lange, Leslie A.
Article History
Received: 9 December 2016
Revised: 21 December 2017
Accepted: 12 February 2018
First Online: 1 June 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All studies were approved by local ethics committees and all participants provided written informed consent. The ethics committees for the individual studies are: AGES: The National Bioethics Committee, Iceland; ARIC: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Office of Human Research Ethics; CHS: University of Washington Human Subjects Division IRB; HVH: Group Health Cooperative Human Subjects Review Committee; JHS: The Institutional Review Board of the University of Mississippi Medical Center; Medical Center Rotterdam Study: Medical Ethics Committee of the Erasmus Medical Center; HyperGEN: University of Alabama at Birmingham Office of Human Research Ethics; NEO: Ethical committee of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC).