Financial & competing interests disclosure
S Tsimikas is named as an inventor of and receives royalties from patents and patent applications awarded to the University of California (CA, USA) for the use of oxidation-specific antibodies, is a cofounder and has equity interest in Atherotope, is a consultant to ISIS, Genzyme, Quest and Aterovax, and has received investigator-initiated grants from Merck and Pfizer. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.
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