About the Authors

Ida Gregersen

ida.gregersen@rr-research.no

Affiliations Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Mona Skjelland

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway

Sverre Holm

Affiliation Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway

Kirsten B. Holven

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Nutrition, Institute for Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Kirsten Krogh-Sørensen

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway

David Russell

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway

Erik T. Askevold

Affiliations Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, K.G. Jebsen Cardiac Research Centre and Center for Heart Failure Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Christen P. Dahl

Affiliations Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, K.G. Jebsen Cardiac Research Centre and Center for Heart Failure Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Stein Ørn

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway

Lars Gullestad

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, K.G. Jebsen Cardiac Research Centre and Center for Heart Failure Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Tom E. Mollnes

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Research Laboratory, Somatic Research Centre, Nordland Hospital, Bodø, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, Department of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway

Thor Ueland

Affiliations Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Pål Aukrust

Affiliations Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Section of Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway

Bente Halvorsen

Affiliations Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IG PA BH. Performed the experiments: IG SH TU. Analyzed the data: IG SH TU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS DR ETA CPD SO LG TEM. Wrote the paper: IG PA.