About the Authors

Mari Levula

Contributed equally to this work with: Mari Levula, Niku Oksala

mari@levula.fi

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere University Hospital and Department of Clinical Chemistry, Medical School, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

Niku Oksala

Contributed equally to this work with: Mari Levula, Niku Oksala

Affiliations Department of Clinical Chemistry, Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere University Hospital and Department of Clinical Chemistry, Medical School, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Nina Airla

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere University Hospital and Department of Clinical Chemistry, Medical School, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

Rainer Zeitlin

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Juha-Pekka Salenius

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Otso Järvinen

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Maarit Venermo

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Teemu Partio

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Jukka Saarinen

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Taija Somppi

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

VeliPekka Suominen

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Jyrki Virkkunen

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Juha Hautalahti

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Reijo Laaksonen

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere University Hospital and Department of Clinical Chemistry, Medical School, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

Mika Kähönen

Affiliation Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Ari Mennander

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Leena Kytömäki

Affiliation Turku Center for Biotechnology, Turku, Finland

Juhani T. Soini

Affiliation Turku Center for Biotechnology, Turku, Finland

Jyrki Parkkinen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere, Finland

Markku Pelto-Huikko

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Medical School, University of Tampere and Department of Pathology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Terho Lehtimäki

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere University Hospital and Department of Clinical Chemistry, Medical School, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML NO TL MP-H RZ OJ LK JTS JP NA. Performed the experiments: ML NO MP-H LK JP. Analyzed the data: J-PS MV TP JS TS VS JV JH RL MK AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TL MP-H JTS. Wrote the paper: ML NO MP-H TL AM NA JP RZ.