1. Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Studies Coordinating Centre, Division of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;
2. Department of Physiology, Hypertension in Africa Research Team (HART), North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa;
3. Tohoku University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sendai, Japan;
4. Centro de Nefrología and Departamento de Fisiopatología, Hospital de Clínicas, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay;
5. Center for Epidemiological Studies and Clinical Trials ,Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China;
6. Center for Vascular Evaluation, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China;
7. Research Center for Prevention and Health and the Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark;
8. Section of Geriatrics, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;
9. Department of Health Science, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan;
10. Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark;
11. Cambridge University Hospitals, Addenbrook’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom;
12. Institute of Internal Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation;
13. First Department of Cardiology and Hypertension, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland;
14. Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy;
15. Department of Cardiology, Asociación Española Primera de Socorros Mutuos, Montevideo, Uruguay;
16. Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic;
17. Aarhus University and Division of Cardiology, Holbak Hospital, Holbak, Denmark;
18. Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland;
19. Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.