Biomarkers, Clinical Variables, and the CHA2DS2-VASc Score to Detect Silent Brain Infarcts in Atrial Fibrillation Patients.

"Michael Kühne received grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Heart Foundation, and lecture/consulting fees from Daiichi-Sankyo, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer, Pfizer-BMS, AstraZeneca, Sanofi-Aventis, Novartis, MSD, Medtronic, Boston Scientific, St. Jude Medical, Biotronik, Sorin, Zoll and Biosense Webster. Christine S. Zuern received a research grant from Medtronic and lecture/consulting fees from Vifor Pharma and Novartis. Vinzent Rolny is employed by Roche Diagnostics GmbH. Leo H. Bonati received grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the University of Basel, the Swiss Heart Foundation, and the “Stiftung zur Förderung der gastroenterologischen und allgemeinen klinischen Forschung sowie der medizinischen Bildauswertung.” He has received an unrestricted research grant from AstraZeneca, and consultancy or advisory board fees or speaker’s honoraria from Amgen, Bayer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Claret Medical, and InnovHeart, and travel grants from AstraZeneca and Bayer."

"The Swiss-AF cohort study is supported by grants of the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant numbers 33CS30_1148474, 33CS30_177520 and 32473B_176178) (Appendix 1), the Foundation for Cardiovascular Research Basel and the University of Basel. Roche Diagnostics supported the biomarker analysis by providing free of charge measurements of commercially available invitro diagnostic tests (IVDs) and also by reagent development for pre-commercial high-throughput Elecsys® research use only (RUO) immunoassays. David Conen holds a McMaster University Department of Medicine Mid-Career Research Award. His work was supported by the Hamilton Health Sciences RFA Strategic Initiative Program. Philipp Krisai is supported by the University of Basel, the Mach-Gaensslen foundation and the Bangerter-Rhyner foundation. Michael Kühne received grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Heart Foundation, and lecture/consulting fees from Daiichi-Sankyo, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer, Pfizer-BMS, AstraZeneca, Sanofi-Aventis, Novartis, MSD, Medtronic, Boston Scientific, St. Jude Medical, Biotronik, Sorin, Zoll and Biosense Webster. Christine S. Zuern received a research grant from Medtronic and lecture/consulting fees from Vifor Pharma and Novartis. Vinzent Rolny is employed by Roche Diagnostics GmbH. Leo H. Bonati received grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the University of Basel, the Swiss Heart Foundation, and the “Stiftung zur Förderung der gastroenterologischen und allgemeinen klinischen Forschung sowie der medizinischen Bildauswertung.” He has received an unrestricted research grant from AstraZeneca, and consultancy or advisory board fees or speaker’s honoraria from Amgen, Bayer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Claret Medical, and InnovHeart, and travel grants from AstraZeneca and Bayer."