About the Authors

Juan Manuel González-Rosa

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Manuel González-Rosa, Gabriela Guzmán-Martínez

Current address: Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Development and Repair, Atherothrombosis and Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain

Gabriela Guzmán-Martínez

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Manuel González-Rosa, Gabriela Guzmán-Martínez

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Atherothrombosis and Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain

Inês João Marques

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Development and Repair, Atherothrombosis and Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain

Héctor Sánchez-Iranzo

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Development and Repair, Atherothrombosis and Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain

Luis Jesús Jiménez-Borreguero

nmercader@cnic.es (NM); ljborreguero@cnic.es (LJJB)

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Atherothrombosis and Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain, Hospital de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain

Nadia Mercader

nmercader@cnic.es (NM); ljborreguero@cnic.es (LJJB)

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Development and Repair, Atherothrombosis and Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NM LJJB GG JMGR. Performed the experiments: GG JMGR IJM HS. Analyzed the data: GG IJM JMGR. Wrote the paper: GG JMGR IJM HS NM.