About the Authors
- Dermot Phelan
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Contributed equally to this work with: Dermot Phelan, Chris Watson, Ken McDonald
Affiliations Heart Failure Unit, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin, Ireland, School of Medicine and Medical Science, UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Chris Watson
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Contributed equally to this work with: Dermot Phelan, Chris Watson, Ken McDonald
Affiliation School of Medicine and Medical Science, UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Ramon Martos
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Affiliations Heart Failure Unit, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin, Ireland, School of Medicine and Medical Science, UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Patrick Collier
- Anil Patle
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Affiliation Heart Failure Unit, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin, Ireland
- Seamas Donnelly
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Affiliation School of Medicine and Medical Science, UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Mark Ledwidge
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Affiliation Heart Failure Unit, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin, Ireland
- John Baugh
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* E-mail: John.Baugh@ucd.ie
Affiliation School of Medicine and Medical Science, UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Ken McDonald
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Contributed equally to this work with: Dermot Phelan, Chris Watson, Ken McDonald
Affiliations Heart Failure Unit, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin, Ireland, School of Medicine and Medical Science, UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Competing Interests
This research was in part funded by a research bursary allocated by the Irish Heart Foundation which was funded by Pfizer. Pfizer had no input into the allocation of the bursary. The research was preformed completely independently of Pfizer. Pfizer had no input into the design or execution of the study or in the data analysis or manuscript preparation. No additional external funding was received for this study. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no other relevant declarations relating to employment, consultancy, patents and products in development or marketed products.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DP CW RM SD ML JB KMD. Performed the experiments: DP RM CW PC AP. Analyzed the data: DP CW PC JB ML KMD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KMD. Wrote the paper: DP CW JB KMD.