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"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateAll protocols were approved by our institutional review boards; written informed consent was obtained from all participants of the screening cohort, and informed consent was waived for retrospective data analyses for the clinical cohort. Consent for publicationThe echocardiography image in Fig. 1 is from an anonymized participant of the Framingham Offspring Study with any identifying information removed. Competing interestsThe authors declare they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare they have no competing interests."

"Funding This work was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health contract N01-HC-25195, HHSN268201500001 and grants R01-HL134168, R01-HL131532, R01-HL143227, R01-HL142983, and K23-HL153888; and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Grant 2020059."