Author affiliations

a Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, S. Luca Hospital, Istituto Auxologico Italiano

b Department of Health Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

c Hypertension Center, Third University Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece

d Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

e Medical Research Institutes, Geneva, Switzerland

f University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

g Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, S. Luca Hospital, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy

h University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

i Hospital Mutua Terrassa, University of Barcelona, Terrassa, Spain

j Department of Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

k Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland and Connolly Memorial Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland

l Hypertension and Cardiovascular Rehab, Unit, KU Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium

m Division of Nephrology and Hypertension College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

n Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

o Tohoku University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sendai, Japan

p Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, Yakushiji, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

q Pediatrics Department, Consorcio Hospital General Universitario, University of Valencia and CIBERObn, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

r Cardiology – CHU de Grenoble – Grenoble Cedex, France

s IRCCS, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Università Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

t Kerckhoff-Klinik GmbH, Bad Nauheim, Germany

u Division of Cardiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada

v Center for Healthful Behavior Change, Division of Internal Medicine, NYU Medical Center, New York, USA

w Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

x Italian Institute of Telemedicine, Varese, Italy

y Dipartimento di Medicina, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

z University of Valencia INCLIVA Research Institute and CIBERobn, Madrid, Spain

aa Hypertension Unit, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain

ab Women’s Health Academic Centre KHP, Division of Women’s Health, King’s College London, UK

ac Studies Coordinating Centre, Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, KU Leuven Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

ad Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht

ae Academisch Medisch Centrum, afd. Interne en vasculaire geneeskunde, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

af Struttura Complessa di Medicina, Ospedale di Assisi, Assisi PG, Italy

ag Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Division de Physiopathologie Clinique, Lausanne, Switzerland

ah Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Centre for Epidemiological Studies and Clinical Trials, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

ai Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milano, Italy

aj Division of Hypertension, Fu Wai Hospital, CAMS & PUMC, Beijing, China

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