About the Authors

Romy Franken

Contributed equally to this work with: Romy Franken, Stijntje Hibender

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Stijntje Hibender

Contributed equally to this work with: Romy Franken, Stijntje Hibender

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Alexander W. den Hartog

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Teodora Radonic

Affiliation Department of Pathology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Carlie J. M. de Vries

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Aeilko H. Zwinderman

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Maarten Groenink

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Radiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Barbara J. M. Mulder

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Vivian de Waard

v.dewaard@amc.uva.nl

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TR CdV AZ MG BM VdW. Performed the experiments: RF SH AH. Analyzed the data: RF SH VdW AZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CdV VdW. Wrote the paper: RF SH AH TR AZ MG BM VdW.