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Article History

Received: 25 March 2021

Accepted: 17 May 2021

First Online: 22 June 2021

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: Gregory Y. H. Lip: consultant for Bayer/Janssen, BMS/Pfizer, Medtronic, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis, Verseon and Daiichi-Sankyo; speaker for BMS/Pfizer, Medtronic, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Daiichi-Sankyo. No fees are directly received personally; Michael J. Blaha: grants; FDA, NIH, AHA, Aetna Foundation, Amgen Foundation; advisory board/consultant; Amgen, Sanofi, Regeneron, Kowa, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Bayer, 89Bio, Akcea, Gilead; Carl J. Lavie: speaker and consultant for Regeneron, Sanofi, Amgen, and Esperion on non-statin lipid medications; Peter P. Toth: speakers bureau; Amarin, Amgen, Esperion, Novo-Nordisk; consultant; Amarin, Amgen, bio 89, Kowa and Novartis; J. Wouter Jukema/his department has received research grants from and/or was a speaker (with or without lecture fees) on a.o.(CME accredited) meetings sponsored by Amgen, Athera, Astra-Zeneca, Biotronik, Boston Scientific, Dalcor, Daiichi Sankyo, Lilly, Medtronic, Merck-Schering-Plough, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi Aventis, The Medicine Company, the Netherlands Heart Foundation, CardioVascular Research the Netherlands (CVON), the Netherlands Heart Institute and the European Community Framework KP7 Programme; Naveed Sattar has consulted for Amgen, Astrazeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli-Lilly, MSD, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer and Sanofi, and received Grant income from Boehringer Ingelheim; Maciej Banach: speakers bureau; Abbott/Mylan, Abbott Vascular, Actavis, Akcea, Amgen, Biofarm, KRKA, MSD, Polpharma, Sanofi-Aventis, Servier and Valeant; consultant to Abbott Vascular, Akcea, Amgen, Daichii Sankyo, Esperion, Freia Pharmaceuticals, Lilly, MSD, Polfarmex, Resverlogix, Sanofi-Aventis; Grants from Sanofi and Valeant; Kamal Awad, Maged Mohammed, Mahmoud Mohamed Zaki, and Abdelrahman I. Abushouk have no conflict of interest.