About the Authors

Milind R. Chaudhari

Contributed equally to this work with: Milind R. Chaudhari, Gaspar A. Farkas

Current address: Department of Medicine, and Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

James A. Fallavollita

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Center for Research in Cardiovascular Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, VA Western New York Healthcare System at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Gaspar A. Farkas

Contributed equally to this work with: Milind R. Chaudhari, Gaspar A. Farkas

farkas@buffalo.edu

Affiliation Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRC JAF GAF. Performed the experiments: MRC JAF GAF. Analyzed the data: MRC JAF GAF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MRC JAF GAF. Wrote the paper: MRC JAF GAF. Conception and design of project: GAF MRC. Conducted experiment/project: GAF MRC. Contributed in methods and data collection on cardiac function: JAF MRC. Data analysis and interpretation: MRC GAF. Manuscript drafting and revision: MRC GAF JAF.