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Kathleen Withers, Cedar, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Cardiff Medicentre, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4UJ, UK. kathleen.withers@wales.nhs.uk
The authors thank Peter O'Callaghan (Cardiology Dept., Cardiff and Vale UHB) and Stephen Murray (Cardiology Dept., Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), for clinical support, and David Cunningham (National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research, UCL, London) for database support, Racheal James (Cardiology Dept., Cardiff and Vale UHB) for patient enrolment, and Ann James (Cedar, Cardiff and Vale UHB) for administrative support and data entry.
We would also like to thank all the patients involved in this study.
In honorable memory of Dr. David Cunningham.
The research was facilitated by Cedar, Cardiff & Vale UHB, on behalf of NICE (The National Centre for Health and Care Excellence) as part of their contract as an External Assessment Centre.
The clinical work was funded by the NHS under normal arrangements for clinical governance and consent.
This work was supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Cedar, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (institution of JE, KW, GCR) is funded by NICE.
The clinical work was not funded by NICE but was carried out under normal arrangements.
Funding to pay for open access of this article was provided by Cedar.
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