aMike and Valeria Rosenbloom Centre for Cardiovascular Prevention, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

bNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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