Jean-Philippe Galanaud, MD, PhD1*, Laurent Bertoletti, MD, PhD2*, Paolo Prandoni, MD, PhD3*, Pedro Gallego, MD, PhD4*, Daniela Mastroiacovo, MD5*, Lucia Mazzolai, MD, PhD6*, Angel Samperiz, MD, PhD7*, Yacine Rabah, MD1*, Nuria Ruiz-Gimenez, MD, PhD8*, Marija Zdraveska, MD9*, Susan R Kahn, MD, MSc10,11 and Manuel Monreal, MD, PhD12*
1Department of Internal Medicine, Montpellier University Hospital, Montpellier, France
2Department of Vascular Medicine, Saint Etienne University Hospital, Saint Etienne, France
3Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
4Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital SAS de Jerez, Cadiz, Spain
5Department of Vascular Medicine, Ospedale SS. Filippo e Nicola, Avezzano, Italy
6Division of Angiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
7Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Reina Sofía, Navarra, Spain
8Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain
9Department of Pneumonology and Allergy, University Clinic of Pulmonology and Allergy, Skopje, Macedonia
10Division of Internal Medicine and Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
11Center for Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
12Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Barcelona, Spain