aCenter for Epidemiological Studies and Clinical Trials, and Center for Vascular Evaluations, Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
bStudies Coordinating Centre, Division of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
cResearch Center for Prevention and Health and Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine, and PET, Copenhagen University Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
dCentro de Nefrología and Departamento de Fisiopatología, Hospital de Clínicas, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
eTohoku University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science and Medicine, Sendai, Japan
fSection of Geriatrics, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
gDepartment of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
hCopenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
iCambridge University Hospitals, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK
jFirst Department of Cardiology and Hypertension, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
kDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
lInstitute of Internal Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
mAsociación Española Primera de Socorros Mutuos, Montevideo, Uruguay
nAarhus University and Division of Cardiology, Holbak Hospital, Holbak, Denmark
oConway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
*The IDACO investigators are listed in Ref. [5].
Received 27 January, 2010
Revised 21 April, 2010
Accepted 22 April, 2010
Correspondence to Jan A. Staessen, MD, PhD, FESC, FAHA, Studies Coordinating Centre, Laboratory of Hypertension, University of Leuven, Campus Sint Rafaël, Kapucijnenvoer 35, Block d, Level 00, BE-3000 Leuven, Belgium Tel: 32 16 34 7104; fax: 32 16 34 7106; e-mail: jan.staessen@med.kuleuven.be, jan.staessen@epid.unimaas.nl
