About the Authors

Michael R. Kaufmann

kawut@upenn.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Penn Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

R. Graham Barr

Affiliations Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

João A. C. Lima

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Amy Praestgaard

Affiliation Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Aditya Jain

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Harikrishna Tandri

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

David A. Bluemke

Affiliation Radiology and Imaging Sciences NIH Clinical Center, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Steven M. Kawut

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Penn Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRK RGB JL AP AJ HT DB SK. Performed the experiments: MRK RGB JL AP AJ HT DB SK. Analyzed the data: MRK RGB JL AP AJ HT DB SK. Wrote the paper: MRK RGB JL AP AJ HT DB SK.