About the Authors

Alexander Tenenbaum

altenen@yahoo.com

Affiliations Cardiac Rehabilitation Institute, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Leviev Heart Institute, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, The Israeli Society for the Prevention of Heart Attacks, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Cardiovascular Diabetology Research Foundation, Holon, Israel

Diego Medvedofsky

Affiliation Leviev Heart Institute, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Enrique Z. Fisman

Affiliation Cardiovascular Diabetology Research Foundation, Holon, Israel

Liudmila Bubyr

Affiliation The Israeli Society for the Prevention of Heart Attacks, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Shlomi Matetzky

Affiliations Leviev Heart Institute, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, The Israeli Society for the Prevention of Heart Attacks, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

David Tanne

Affiliation The Israeli Society for the Prevention of Heart Attacks, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Robert Klempfner

Affiliations Cardiac Rehabilitation Institute, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Leviev Heart Institute, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, The Israeli Society for the Prevention of Heart Attacks, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Joseph Shemesh

Affiliation Cardiac Rehabilitation Institute, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Ilan Goldenberg

Affiliations Cardiac Rehabilitation Institute, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Leviev Heart Institute, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, The Israeli Society for the Prevention of Heart Attacks, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Heart Research Follow-up Program, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AT IG LB SM. Performed the experiments: IG LB SM DM. Analyzed the data: DM LB AT IG EZF. Wrote the paper: AT IG EZF RK DT. Performed data management, conceived analytical plan and data interpretation: AT DM RK JS. Final approval of the submitted version: DT RK JS EZF SM.