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Mills  *†,(ESC Chairperson)(United Kingdom), L. Kristin Newby  *†,(ACC/AHA Co-Chairperson) (United States of America), Sarah Zaman  *†,(WHF Co-Chairperson) (Australia), Wael A. Almahmeed (UAE), Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci  (United Kingdom), Monica M. Colvin  (United States of America), George D. Dangas  (United States of America), Holli A. DeVon (United States of America), Rohan Dharmakumar  (United States of America), Thomas A. Gaziano  (United States of America), Derek J. Hausenloy  (Singapore), Mohamed Jeilan (Kenya), Konstantinos C. Koskinas (Switzerland), Bertil Lindahl (Sweden), Zuzana Motovska  (Czech Republic), Maria Rubini Gimenez  (Spain), Ana María Salvati  (Argentina), Jacqueline E. Tamis-Holland  (United States of America), and ESC/ACC/AHA/WHF Universal Definition Document Advisory Group  \n* Corresponding authors: Nicholas L. Mills, British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, The University of Edinburgh, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4SU, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 131 242 6515, Email: [nick.mills@ed.ac.uk](nick.mills@ed.ac.uk); L. Kristin Newby, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke Health, Durham, NC 27710, United States of America. Tel: +01 919 668 8805, Email: [kristin.newby@duke.edu](kristin.newby@duke.edu); Sarah Zaman, Westmead Applied Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia, and Department of Cardiology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia. Tel: +61 2 9036 0000, Email: [sarah.zaman@sydney.edu.au](sarah.zaman@sydney.edu.au)  \n† The Chairperson and the two Co-Chairpersons contributed equally to the document and are joint corresponding authors.  \nAuthor/Task Force Member affiliations are listed in author information.  \nThis article has been co-published in European Heart Journal, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Circulation, and Global Heart. All rights reserved.  \n© 2026 European Society of Cardiology, American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, Inc., and World Heart Foundation. The articles are identical except for minor stylistic and spelling differences in keeping with each journal’s style. 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