About the Authors

Michael Lever

michael.lever@otago.ac.nz

Affiliations Clinical Biochemistry Unit, Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand, Department of Pathology, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand

Peter M. George

Affiliations Clinical Biochemistry Unit, Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand, Department of Pathology, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand

Sandy Slow

Affiliations Clinical Biochemistry Unit, Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand, Department of Pathology, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand

David Bellamy

Affiliation Clinical Biochemistry Unit, Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand

Joanna M. Young

Affiliation The Christchurch Heart Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand

Markus Ho

Affiliation Clinical Biochemistry Unit, Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand

Christopher J. McEntyre

Affiliation Clinical Biochemistry Unit, Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand

Jane L. Elmslie

Affiliation Clinical Biochemistry Unit, Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand

Wendy Atkinson

Affiliation Clinical Biochemistry Unit, Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand

Sarah L. Molyneux

Affiliation Clinical Biochemistry Unit, Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand

Richard W. Troughton

Affiliation The Christchurch Heart Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand

Christopher M. Frampton

Affiliation The Christchurch Heart Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand

A. Mark Richards

Affiliation The Christchurch Heart Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand

Stephen T. Chambers

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMR STC ML PMG RWT SS. Performed the experiments: WA JLE SLM CJM MH. Analyzed the data: ML JMY CMF DB MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJM. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: ML PMG DB AMR STC. Statistical advisor: CMF.