About the Authors

James M. Mason

j.m.mason@durham.ac.uk

Affiliation Durham Clinical Trials Unit, Durham University, Queen's Campus, Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom

Helen C. Hancock

Affiliation Durham Clinical Trials Unit, Durham University, Queen's Campus, Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom

Helen Close

Affiliation Durham Clinical Trials Unit, Durham University, Queen's Campus, Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom

Jerry J. Murphy

Affiliations School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, Durham University, Queen's Campus, Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom, Department of Cardiology, Darlington Memorial Hospital, Darlington, United Kingdom

Ahmet Fuat

Affiliations School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, Durham University, Queen's Campus, Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom, Department of Cardiology, Darlington Memorial Hospital, Darlington, United Kingdom

Mark de Belder

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

Raj Singh

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Darlington Memorial Hospital, Darlington, United Kingdom

Andrew Teggert

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

Esther Wood

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Darlington Memorial Hospital, Darlington, United Kingdom

Gill Brennan

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Darlington Memorial Hospital, Darlington, United Kingdom

Nehal Hussain

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

Nitin Kumar

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

Novin Manshani

Affiliation School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, Durham University, Queen's Campus, Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom

David Hodges

Affiliation School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, Durham University, Queen's Campus, Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom

Douglas Wilson

Affiliation Durham Clinical Trials Unit, Durham University, Queen's Campus, Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom

A. Pali S. Hungin

Affiliation School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, Durham University, Queen's Campus, Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Undertook data collection: RS EW GB NH NK NM DH. Read and approved the final manuscript: JMM HCH HC JJM AF MdB RS AT EW GB NH NK NM DH DW APSH. Conceived and designed the experiments: JMM HCH HC JJM AF MdB APSH. Performed the experiments: AT. Analyzed the data: JMM HCH HC DW MdB. Wrote the paper: JMM HCH HC JJM AF MdB AT APSH.