ODYSSEY Outcomes ( NCT01663402 ) was funded by Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Dr Schwartz has received research support to the University of Colorado from AstraZeneca, Resverlogix, Roche, Sanofi, and The Medicines Company; and is a coinventor on pending US patent 62/806,313 (“Methods for Reducing Cardiovascular Risk”) assigned in full to the University of Colorado. Dr Szarek has served as a consultant or on advisory boards (or both) for CiVi, Resverlogix, Baxter, Esperion, Lexicon, Sanofi, and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Dr Bittner has received grant support from Sanofi, AstraZeneca, DalCor, Esperion, Bayer, The Medicines Company, and Amgen (all paid direct to her institution); and has received personal fees from Sanofi. Dr Diaz has received research grants from Sanofi, DalCor Pharmaceuticals, the Population Health Research Institute, the Duke Clinical Research Institute, the TIMI group, Amgen, Cirius, Montreal Health Innovations Coordinating Center, and Lepetit; and has received personal fees, as a member of the executive steering committee, from Amgen and Cirius. Dr Goodman has received research grant support (eg, steering committee or data and safety monitoring committee) and/or speaker and consulting honoraria (eg, advisory boards) from Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, CSL Behring, Daiichi Sankyo/American Regent, Eli Lilly, Esperion, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, HLS Therapeutics, Janssen/Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pendopharm, Pfizer, Regeneron, Sanofi, Servier, and Valeo Pharma; and has received salary support and honoraria from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario/University of Toronto (Polo) Chair, the Canadian Heart Research Centre and MD Primer, the Canadian VIGOUR Centre, the Cleveland Clinic Coordinating Centre for Clinical Research, the Duke Clinical Research Institute, the New York University Clinical Coordinating Centre, and the PERFUSE Research Institute. Dr Jukema has received research grants from the Netherlands Heart Foundation, the Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands, and the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme; and has received research support from Amgen, Astellas, AstraZeneca, Daiichi Sankyo, Eli Lilly, Merck-Schering-Plough, Pfizer, Roche, and Sanofi. Dr Landmesser has received research grants from Novartis, Bayer, and Amgen; and has received lecture or advisory honorary fees from Amgen, Sanofi, Novartis, Bayer, Pfizer, and The Medicines Company. Dr López-Jaramillo has received honoraria for lectures from Menarini, Abbott, and Merck. Drs Manvelian and Pordy are employees of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Dr Scemama is an employee of Sanofi. Dr Sinnaeve has received institutional grants from the Flemish government, AstraZeneca, and Daiichi Sankyo; is a corecipient of a named chair supported by Bayer; and has received advisory and speaker fees (all institutional) from Sanofi, Amgen, Idorsia, Bristol Myers Squibb/Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Abbott. Dr White has received grant support paid to the institution and fees for serving on a steering committee for the ODYSSEY Outcomes trial from Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, for the ACCELERATE study from Eli Lilly, for the STRENGTH trial from Omthera Pharmaceuticals, for the SPIRE trial from Pfizer, for the HEART-FID study from American Regent, for the CAMELLIA-TIMI study from Eisai, for the dal-GenE study from DalCor Pharma UK, for the AEGIS-II study from CSL Behring, for the SCORED trial and the SOLOIST-WHF trial from Sanofi Australia, and for the CLEAR Outcomes study from Esperion Therapeutics. Dr White has served on advisory boards for Actelion, Sirtex, and Genentech (an affiliate of F. Hoffmann-La Roche; Lytics Post-PCI Advisory Board at the European Society of Cardiology); and has received lecture fees from AstraZeneca. Dr. Steg has received grants and nonfinancial support (cochair of the ODYSSEY Outcomes trial; as such, he received no personal fees, but his institution has received funding for the time he has devoted to trial coordination, and he has received support for travel related to trial meetings) from Sanofi; has received research grants and personal fees from Bayer (steering committee, MARINER, grant for epidemiological study), Merck (speaker fees, grant for epidemiological studies), Sanofi (cochair of the ODYSSEY Outcomes trial; cochair of the SCORED trial; consulting and speaking), Servier (chair of the CLARIFY registry; grant for epidemiological research), and Amarin (executive steering committee for the REDUCE-IT trial; consulting); and has received personal fees from Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Pfizer, Idorsia, Myokardia, Novo Nordisk, Novartis, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, and AstraZeneca. Dr Steg also has a European application number/patent number, issued on October 26, 2016 (15712241.7), for a method for reducing cardiovascular risk (all royalties assigned to Sanofi).
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The authors thank the patients, study coordinators, and investigators who participated in this trial. Sophie Rushton-Smith, PhD (MedLink Healthcare Communications), provided editorial assistance in the preparation of the manuscript (limited to editing for style, referencing, and figure and table editing) and was funded by Sanofi.