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DECLARATIONS
Acknowledgments
We are profoundly grateful to Bansari Rajani, Gabrielle Sutton, Jatin Khanna, Tara Johnson, Sue Streeter,
Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Center staff at Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center Hospital,
and to all study participants for their time and effort. We would like to thank the staff of the cardiac
rehabilitation program at Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Heart & Vascular
Center, and the staff of the cardiac rehabilitation program at the Frankel Cardiovascular Center at the
University of Michigan.

Authors’ contributions
Data curation, writing - original draft preparation: Toy YA
Supervision, project administration, writing - reviewing and editing: House KN
Supervision, project administration: Boyer LM, McNamara JL
Data curation, methodology: Lim MS
Conceptualization, methodology, writing - reviewing and editing, project administration: Hofman-Bowman
MA, Eagle KA, Braverman AC, Prakash SK

Availability of data and materials
Data will be published as Supplementary Material.

Financial support and sponsorship
This work was supported in part by a grant from the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health and a gift
from Carmen David. The funders had no role in the editing or scientific content of this manuscript.
Dr. Braverman’s research is sponsored by the Pam and Ron Rubin Fund at Washington University School
of Medicine and the Neidorff Aortopathy and Master Clinician in Cardiology Fellowship Program at
Washington University School of Medicine.

Conflicts of interest
All authors declared that there are no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval and consent to participate
The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects at
the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston), University of Michigan,
and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The protocol number is HSC-MS-22-0936 and
the approval date was November 28, 2022. All subjects signed a written informed consent document prior to
enrollment.

Consent for publication
Not applicable.

Copyright
© The Author(s) 2024.

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