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Corresponding Author: Shilpa Vyas-Read, Phone: (404) 727-3360, Email: svyasre@emory.edu
Authors’ contributions SVR: conception and design, acquisition of data, interpretation of data, drafting of the manuscript, final approval of the manuscript, and accountability ensuring accuracy and integrity of the work; UK: echocardiographic parameter selection and interpretation, critical revision of the manuscript, final approval of the manuscript, and accountability ensuring accuracy and integrity of the work; PS: abstraction of data from clinical data warehouse, final approval of the manuscript, and accountability ensuring accuracy and integrity of the work; JS: acquisition of data, final approval of the manuscript, and accountability ensuring accuracy and integrity of the work; CT: database creation, interpretation of the data, final approval of the manuscript, and accountability ensuring accuracy and integrity of the work; DPC: interpretation of data, critical revision of the manuscript, final approval of the manuscript, and accountability ensuring accuracy and integrity of the work; AF: conception and design, interpretation of data, critical revision of the manuscript, final approval of the manuscript, and accountability ensuring accuracy and integrity of the work.
The authors would like to acknowledge Karen Parker for her aid in the submission of this manuscript.
The authors have no competing interests in the design, implementation, analysis or preparation of this manuscript.
The NIH was not involved in the 1) study design; 2) the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; 3) the writing of the report; and 4) the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
Shilpa Vyas-Read wrote the first draft of the manuscript and no form of payment was given to anyone to produce the manuscript.
Supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number UL1 TROOO454
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