1 Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland; Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
2 Cardiovascular Intervention Research Center, Rajaie Cardiovascular, Medical, and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
3 Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Thrombosis Research Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; YNHH/ Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), New Haven, CT, USA; Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF), New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: bbikdeli@bwh.harvard.edu.