About the Authors

Natasha H. Corballis

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft

natasha.corballis@nnuh.nhs.uk

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich, United Kingdom, Norwich Medical School, Bob Champion Research and Education, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

Sophie Paddock

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Norwich Medical School, Bob Champion Research and Education, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

Tharusha Gunawardena

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich, United Kingdom, Norwich Medical School, Bob Champion Research and Education, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

Ioannis Merinopoulos

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich, United Kingdom, Norwich Medical School, Bob Champion Research and Education, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

Vassilios S. Vassiliou

Contributed equally to this work with: Vassilios S. Vassiliou, Simon C. Eccleshall

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich, United Kingdom, Norwich Medical School, Bob Champion Research and Education, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

Simon C. Eccleshall

Contributed equally to this work with: Vassilios S. Vassiliou, Simon C. Eccleshall

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

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Vassilios Vassiliou reports speaker fees from Medtronic and Daichii-Sankyo and received a grant for investigator-initiated research. Simon Eccleshall received speaker fees and acts as a consultant for B Braun and received grants for investigator-initiated research. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.