About the Authors

Andrew P. DeFilippis

APDeFi01@louisville.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Diabetes and Obesity Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Patrick J. Trainor

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Bioinformatics, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Bradford G. Hill

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Diabetes and Obesity Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Alok R. Amraotkar

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Diabetes and Obesity Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Shesh N. Rai

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Glenn A. Hirsch

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Diabetes and Obesity Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Eric C. Rouchka

Affiliation Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Aruni Bhatnagar

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Diabetes and Obesity Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: APD PJT BGH GAH AB. Data curation: APD PJT ARA SNR ECR. Formal analysis: APD PJT SNR ECR AB. Funding acquisition: APD AB. Investigation: APD PJT ARA. Methodology: APD PJT BGH SNR ECR AB. Project administration: APD PJT ARA AB. Resources: APD PJT SNR ECR AB. Software: PJT SNR ECR. Supervision: APD AB. Validation: APD PJT SNR ECR. Visualization: APD PJT BGH ARA GAH AB. Writing – original draft: APD PJT. Writing – review & editing: APD PJT BGH GAH ECR AB.