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Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Cardiology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA.
• ² Department of Neurology, Tufts Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.
• ³ Predictive Analytics and Comparative Effectiveness Center Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.
• ⁴ Department of Neurology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
• ⁵ Division of Cardiology, Columbia University, New York, NY.
• ⁶ Departments of Neurology and Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY.
• ⁷ Department of Neurology, Hôpital Sainte-Anne, Paris-Descartes University, Paris, France.
• ⁸ Department of Neurology, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ⁹ Department of Cardiology, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ¹⁰ Department of Neurology, Triemli Municipal Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland.
• ¹¹ Department of Cardiology, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
• ¹² Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• ¹³ Cardiology Clinic, University of Washington, Seattle.
• ¹⁴ Department of Neurology, Hospital Universitari Doctor Josep Trueta Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona, Girona, Spain.