About the Authors

Vesna Gorenjak

Contributed equally to this work with: Vesna Gorenjak, Dwaine R. Vance

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Université de Lorraine, Inserm, IGE-PCV, Nancy, France

Dwaine R. Vance

Contributed equally to this work with: Vesna Gorenjak, Dwaine R. Vance

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Randox Laboratories Limited, Crumlin, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Alexandros M. Petrelis

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Université de Lorraine, Inserm, IGE-PCV, Nancy, France

Maria G. Stathopoulou

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Université de Lorraine, Inserm, IGE-PCV, Nancy, France

Sébastien Dadé

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Université de Lorraine, Inserm, IGE-PCV, Nancy, France

Said El Shamieh

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Beirut Arab University, Beirut, Lebanon

Helena Murray

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Randox Laboratories Limited, Crumlin, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Christine Masson

Roles Resources

Affiliation Université de Lorraine, Inserm, IGE-PCV, Nancy, France

John Lamont

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Randox Laboratories Limited, Crumlin, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Peter Fitzgerald

Roles Resources

Affiliation Randox Laboratories Limited, Crumlin, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Sophie Visvikis-Siest

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

sophie.visvikis-siest@inserm.fr

Affiliations Université de Lorraine, Inserm, IGE-PCV, Nancy, France, Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, CHU Technopôle Nancy-Brabois, Rue du Morvan, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Some authors are employed by a commercial company: "Randox Laboratories Limited". This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.