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Funding: This work was supported by grant number U01 HL105270-06 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of National Institutes of Health.
Conflicts of Interest: BB is supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH) through grant number T32 HL007854. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. BB and HMK report that they were approached by lawyers on behalf of plaintiffs in litigation related to IVC filters, although this study was conducted prior to that relationship. The current study is the idea of the investigators and not performed at the request or support of a third party. HMK is a recipient of research grants, through Yale, from Medtronic and Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) to develop methods of clinical trial data sharing and from Medtronic and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to develop methods for post-market surveillance of medical devices; works under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to develop and maintain performance measures that are publicly reported; chairs a Cardiac Scientific Advisory Board for UnitedHealth; is a participant/participant representative of the IBM Watson Health Life Sciences Board; is a member of the Advisory Board for Element Science and the Physician Advisory Board for Aetna; and is the founder of Hugo, a personal health information platform. KEM, YW, and RRA have no conflicts, financial or otherwise, to disclose.
Authorship: HMK takes full responsibility for the content of the manuscript including the data and analysis. KEM, BB, YW, and RRA contributed substantially to the study design, data analysis and interpretation, and the writing of the manuscript.
