About the Authors

Pai Ching Yu

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Medicine in Cardiology Unit, Heart Institute (InCor) – Hospital das Clínicas - University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil

Daniela Calderaro

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Medicine in Cardiology Unit, Heart Institute (InCor) – Hospital das Clínicas - University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil

Danielle Menosi Gualandro

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Medicine in Cardiology Unit, Heart Institute (InCor) – Hospital das Clínicas - University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil

Andre Coelho Marques

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Medicine in Cardiology Unit, Heart Institute (InCor) – Hospital das Clínicas - University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil

Adriana Feio Pastana

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Medicine in Cardiology Unit, Heart Institute (InCor) – Hospital das Clínicas - University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil

Joao Carlos Prandini

Affiliation Mathematics Department, University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Bruno Caramelli

bcaramel@usp.br

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Medicine in Cardiology Unit, Heart Institute (InCor) – Hospital das Clínicas - University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PCY DC DMG ACM AFP JCP BC. Analyzed the data: PCY DC ACM JCP BC. Wrote the paper: PCY BC. Revised and approved the final version of the article: BC, PCY, DC, DMG, ACM, AFP, JCP. Collected and organized the data of the study: PCY, DMG, AFP. Performed the statistical analysis of the data: JCP.