Ziff, Oliver J.
Samra, Monica
Howard, James P.
Bromage, Daniel I.
Ruschitzka, Frank
Francis, Darrel P.
Kotecha, Dipak
Article History
Received: 15 November 2019
Accepted: 17 March 2020
First Online: 5 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
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: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form and declare the following: OJZ, MS, JPH, DIB and DPF have no relevant conflicts. FR received as direct personal payment speaker fees, honoraria, consultancy, advisory board fees, investigator, committee member from Amgen, Boehringer Ingelheim Novartis, Pfizer, BMS, Servier, Sanofi Aventis, Zoll Medical, St. Jude Medical, Fresenius Nutrition, Vifor International, Cardiorentis and Heartware and as payment to institution speaker fees, honoraria, consultancy, advisory board fees, investigator, committee member from Bayer, Novartis and St. Jude Medical. DK reports grants from Menarini and personal fees from Bayer, Atricure, Myokardia and Amomed, all outside the submitted work, and is the Chief Investigator of the RATE-AF clinical trial (NCT02391337), Steering Group Lead for the Beta-Blockers in Heart Failure Collaborative Group (BB-meta-HF; NCT NCT00832442), and a member of the consortium for an EU/EFPIA Innovative Medicines Initiative on big data for ACS/AF/HF (116074; BigData@Heart).