Affiliations

• ¹ Cardiology, Angiology, Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany Felix.Mahfoud@uniklinikum-saarland.de felix.mahfoud@uks.eu.
• ² Cardiology, Angiology, Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany.
• ³ Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôspital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France INSERM, CIC1418, Paris, France.
• ⁴ Clinique Pasteur Toulouse, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Risk Factors, Hypertension and Heart Failure Unit, Avenue de Lombez, Toulouse, France.
• ⁵ AP-HP Public Health, Henri Mondor Hospital, ECEVE-UMR1123 - INSERM & UPEC, Paris, France.
• ⁶ 1st Department of Cardiology, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
• ⁷ Department of Cardiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• ⁸ Department of Nephrology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• ⁹ Service of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ¹⁰ Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
• ¹¹ CardioVascular Center Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Swedish Heart and Vascular, Seattle, USA.
• ¹² Clinica Medica, Università Milano-Bicocca and Istituto di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico IRCCS Multimedica, Sesto San Giovanni, Milan, Italy.
• ¹³ CVPath Institute, Gaithersburg, USA.
• ¹⁴ Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Ullevaal, Oslo, Norway Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
• ¹⁵ Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center, University Hopsital, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ¹⁶ William Harvey Research Institute and Barts NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
• ¹⁷ Heart Institute, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
• ¹⁸ Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, Istituto Auxologico Italiano and Department of Health Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
• ¹⁹ INCLIVA Research Institute and CIBERObn, University of Valencia and ISCIII, Madrid, Spain.
• ²⁰ Institute of research and Hypertension Unit, Hospital 12 de Octubre and Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain.
• ²¹ IQ Healthcare, Section Medical Ethics, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, 6500 HB, The Netherlands.
• ²² Division of Cardiology, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Rome Sapienza and IRCCS Neuromed, Rome, Italy.
• ²³ Department of Cardiology, Bern University Hospital, Bern 3010, Switzerland.
• ²⁴ Department of Interventional Cardiology and Angiology, Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland.
• ²⁵ Cardiovascular Research Center, Aalst, Belgium.
• ²⁶ Department of Angiology, Clinic for Cardiology and Angiology II, University Heart Center Freiburg - Bad Krozingen, Bad Krozingen, Germany.
• ²⁷ Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.