Funding
Open access funding provided by FCT|FCCN (b-on). The RIC-STEMI study was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (Projects PEst-C/SAU/UI0051/2011 and EXCL/BIM-MEC/0055/2012) through the Cardiovascular R&D Unit, by the European Commission Grant FP7-Health-2010 (MEDIA- 261,409) and by Project DOCnet (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000003), supported by Norte Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE 2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF), under Lisbon Portugal Regional Operational Programme and National Funds through Foundation for Science and Technology under project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016385. The RIC-STEMI was also supported by a grant from “José de Mello Saúde”.