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"CF is a co-author of the National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand: Australian Clinical Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Atrial Fibrillation 2018. All other authors declare no conflict of interest."

"Funding: The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: FS is supported by the Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) through a University of Wollongong Doctoral Scholarship. SCI receives funding through a Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship by the Heart Foundation of Australia [Ref: 102821]. CF receives funding through a Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship [Ref: 102168] from the Heart Foundation of Australia and a National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leadership Fellowship [APP 1196262]."