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The BRIGHT Study team consists of: Marisa G. Crespo-Leiro (Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña (CHUAC), CIBERCV, INIBIC, Universidade da Coruña (UDC), La Coruña, Spain); Sandra Cupples (US Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Washington DC, USA); Paolo De Simone (Azienda Ospedaliero‐Universitaria Pisana, Ospedale Cisanello, Pisa, Italy); Albert Groenewoud (Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd, UK); Christiane Kugler (Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany); Linda Ohler (George Washington University, Washington DC, USA); Johan Van Cleemput (University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium); Alain Jean Poncelet (Cliniques Universitaires Saint‐Luc, Brussels, Belgium); Laurent Sebbag (Hôpital Louis Pradel, Lyon, France); Magali Michel (Hôpital Nord Laennec, Nantes, France); Andrée Bernard (Hôpital Universitaire Pitié‐Salpêtrière, Paris, France); Andreas Doesch (University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany); Ugolino Livi (University Hospital Udine, Udine, Italy); Luciano Potena (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy); Vicens Brossa-Loidi (Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain); Javier Segovia-Cubero (Hospital Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain); Luis Almenar-Bonet (Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe de Valencia, Valencia, Spain); Carmen Segura Saint-Gerons (Hospital Univeritario Reina Sofia, Córdoba, Spain); Paul Mohacsi (University Hospital of Bern, Bern, Switzerland); Eva Horvath (University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland); Cheryl Riotto (Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK); Gareth Parry (Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, UK); Ashi Firouzi (Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK); Stella Kozuszko (Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada); Haissam Haddad (University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada); Annemarie Kaan (St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada); Grant Fisher (London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada); Tara Miller (Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, USA); Maureen Flattery (Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, VA, USA); Kristin Ludrosky/Nancy Albert (Cleveland Clinic, OH, USA); Bernice Coleman (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA); Jacqueline Trammell & Flavio Epstein (Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center, Santa Clara, CA, USA); Katherine St. Clair, Andrew Kao (St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA); Maria Molina (Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA); Karyn Ryan Canales (Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, USA); Samira Scalso de Almeida (Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo & Hospital Municipal Vila Santa Catarina - Ministerio da Saude PROAD/-SUS, São Paulo, Brazil); Bartira de Aguiar Roza,Paulista School of Nursing, Federal University of Sao Paulo, São Paolo, Brazil; Andrea Cotait Ayoub (Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia, São Paulo, Brazil); Fernanda Barone (Instituto do Coração da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo Brazil); Michelle Harkess (St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia); Joanne Maddicks-Law (The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia).
Conflicts of interest: None to report.
Author contributions: E.A. and C.D. are joint first authors. F.D. and S.D.G. are joint last authors.
