Affiliations

• ¹ Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA; Georgetown University Hospital/Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, USA.
• ² Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
• ³ Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin, Department of Cardiology, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁴ Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA; Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
• ⁵ Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA; George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
• ⁶ University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ⁷ Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA; University of California, San Francisco, Fresno, CA, USA.
• ⁸ Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• ⁹ Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Göttingen, Germany and German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Göttingen, Germany.
• ¹⁰ Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA; Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA; George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
• ¹¹ Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
• ¹² University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
• ¹³ University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
• ¹⁴ Department of Veterans Affairs, Geriatrics and Extended Care Services, Washington, DC, USA.
• ¹⁵ Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA.
• ¹⁶ Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA; George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA; University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.