Watts, Gerald F. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2276-1524
Gidding, Samuel S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8557-7225
Mata, Pedro
Pang, Jing http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9700-6948
Sullivan, David R.
Yamashita, Shizuya
Raal, Frederick J.
Santos, Raul D.
Ray, Kausik K.
Article History
Accepted: 29 November 2019
First Online: 23 January 2020
Competing interests
: The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship or publication of this article. G.F.W. has received honoraria as a consultant on advisory boards and research grants from Amgen, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi. S.S.G. has received research grants from the US National Institutes of Health and is employed by the FH Foundation. P.M. has received research grants from Amgen and Sanofi. J.P. was supported by a WAHTN Early Career Fellowship and the Australian Government’s Medical Research Future Fund. D.R.S. has received grants from Amarin, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Espirion, Novartis and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, as well as personal fees from Amgen and Sanofi. S.Y. has received grants and personal fees from Astellas Pharma, AstraZeneca, Bayer Yakuhin, Daiichi Sankyo, Hayashibara, Izumisano City, Japan Tobacco, Kaizuka City, Kaken Pharmaceutical, Kissei Pharmaceutical, Kowa, Kyowa Medex, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Mochida Pharmaceutical, the Japanese National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim, Otsuka Pharmaceutical, Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusho, Shionogi, Takeda Pharmaceutical and Teijin Pharma, as well as personal fees from Amgen Astellas BioPharma, Astellas Pharma, AstraZeneca, Bayer Yakuhin, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Daiichi Sankyo, Kaken Pharmaceutical, Medical Review, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Ono Pharmaceutical, Otsuka Pharmaceutical, Pfizer Japan, Sanofi, Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusho, Shionogi, Skylight Biotech, Takeda Pharmaceutical and Toa Eiyo. F.J.R. has received research grants from Amgen, Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, has participated in speakers’ bureaus for and received honoraria from Amgen, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi and The Medicines Company, and is a consultant on advisory boards for Amgen, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi and The Medicines Company. R.D.S. is a recipient of a scholarship from the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Tecnologico (CNPq) process no. 303734/2018-3 and has received honoraria for consulting, research and speaker activities from Ache, Akcea, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Esperion, Kowa, Merck, Novo-Nordisk, Pfizer and Sanofi/Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. K.K.R. has received research grants from Amgen, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Pfizer, Regeneron and Sanofi, as well as honoraria for lectures, being a consultant on advisory boards and/or as a steering committee member from Amgen, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Esperion, IONIS, Kowa, Lilly, Pfizer, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi, Takeda and The Medicines Company.