Footnotes

• Contributors JDB is solely responsible for the present work. The corresponding author had full access to all data in the study and had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication. The author has read and agrees to the manuscript as written.

• Funding JDB receives funding from (1) the Dedman Family Scholar in Clinical Care endowment at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and (2) 14SFRN20740000 from the American Heart Association prevention network.

• Competing interests JDB reports receiving speakers bureau honoraria from Merck.

• Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.