About the Authors

Jiwei Gu

Current address: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Centre of General Hospital, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia, PR China, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, Atrial Fibrillation Study Group, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Regitze Kuhr Skals

Affiliation Unit of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Christian Torp-Pedersen

Affiliation Unit of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Søren Lundbye-Christensen

Affiliations Atrial Fibrillation Study Group, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark, Unit of Clinical Biostatistics, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Carl-Johan Jakobsen

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

John Bæch

Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Mikkel Steen Petersen

Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

Jan Jesper Andreasen

jja@rn.dk

Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, Atrial Fibrillation Study Group, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JJA JG CTP. Data curation: CTP RKS CJJ SLC JB MSP JG JJA. Formal analysis: RKS CTP JG SLC. Funding acquisition: JJA. Investigation: JG CTP RKS SLC JJA. Methodology: JG JJA CTP RKS SLC. Project administration: JG JJA. Resources: JJA CTP. Software: RKS CTP. Supervision: JJA CTP. Validation: CTP RKS CJJ SLC JB MSP JG JJA. Visualization: JG JJA RKS. Writing – original draft: JG RKS JJA. Writing – review & editing: CTP RKS CJJ SLC JB MSP JG JJA.