*Corresponding Author:
Assami Rösner, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiology,
Division of Cardiothoracic and Respiratory Medicine,
University Hospital of North Norway
аnd
Department of Clinical Medicine (IKM)
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Tromsø, Norway
Tel: +47 77627347
e-mail: assami.rosner@unn.no
Data Availability Statement
The data that support the findings of this study are available from the Know Your Heart and the Tromsø Study, but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for the current study, and so are not publicly available. Data from the Know Your Heart Study and this study are, however, available from the authors upon reasonable request with permission from the Know Your Heart Steering Group and the corresponding author of this manuscript.
Funding Statement
This Know Your Heart study was part of the International Project on CVD in Russia (IPCDR). The IPCDR was funded by the Welcome Trust Strategic Award (No. 100 217) and supported by funds from UiT The Arctic University of Norway, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. SM and AnR were supported by the Russian Academy of Science, State Target (grant number: #122031700094-5. The study sponsor/funder was not involved in the design of the study; the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; writing the report; and no restrictions were imposed regarding the publication of the report. The first author received a PhD grant from Helse Nord RHF (HNF 1458-19).
Conflict of Interest Disclosure
HS has received lecture fees from Amgen and Novartis.
Ethics Approval Statement
This study complied with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. The Know Your Heart study was approved by the ethics committees of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (approval number 8808 received 24.02.2015), Novosibirsk State Medical University (approval number 75 received 21/05/2015), the Institute of Preventative Medicine, Novosibirsk (no number; approval received 26/12/2014), and the Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk (approval number 01/01–15 received 27/01/2015). All patients gave written informed consent.