About the Authors

Daniel Caldeira

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dgcaldeira@hotmail.com

Affiliations Serviço de Cardiologia, Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria (CHLN), CAML, Centro Cardiovascular da Universidade de Lisboa—CCUL, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida Professor Egas Moniz, Lisboa, Portugal, Laboratório de Farmacologia Clínica e Terapêutica, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida Professor Egas Moniz, Lisboa, Portugal, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida Professor Egas Moniz, Lisboa, Portugal

Daniela Alves

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hematology Department, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Santa Maria University Hospital (CHLN), Lisbon, Portugal

João Costa

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratório de Farmacologia Clínica e Terapêutica, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida Professor Egas Moniz, Lisboa, Portugal, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida Professor Egas Moniz, Lisboa, Portugal

Joaquim J. Ferreira

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratório de Farmacologia Clínica e Terapêutica, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida Professor Egas Moniz, Lisboa, Portugal, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida Professor Egas Moniz, Lisboa, Portugal

Fausto J. Pinto

Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Serviço de Cardiologia, Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria (CHLN), CAML, Centro Cardiovascular da Universidade de Lisboa—CCUL, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida Professor Egas Moniz, Lisboa, Portugal

Competing Interests

DC has participated in educational meetings and/or attended a conferences or symposia with Bristol-Myers Squibb, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Daiichi Sankyo, Merck Serono, Ferrer, Pfizer, Novartis and Roche. DA received speaker fees from Janssen, Roche, Gillead and Takeda. JJF had speaker and consultant fees with GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, TEVA, Lundbeck, Solvay, Abbott, Bial, Merck-Serono, Grunenthal, and Merck Sharp and Dohme; FJP had consultant and speaker fees with Astra Zeneca, Bayer, BMS, Boehringer Ingelheim and Daiichi Sankyo. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.