About the Authors

George M. Carter

Affiliation Foundation for Integrative AIDS Research, Brooklyn, NY, United States of America

Debbie Indyk

Affiliation Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Matthew Johnson

Affiliation Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America

Michael Andreae

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States of America

Kathryn Suslov

Affiliation Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Sudharani Busani

Affiliation Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Aryan Esmaeili

Affiliation Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Henry S. Sacks

Henry.Sacks@mountsinai.org

Affiliation Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GC HS. Analyzed the data: GMC MA MJ. Wrote the paper: GC MA MJ DI AE SB HS. Database searches: GC KS. Data abstraction: GC KS MA. Statistical analyses: MJ.