About the Authors

Niina Matikainen

Contributed equally to this work with: Niina Matikainen, Maria Antonella Burza

Affiliation HUCH Heart and Lung Centre, Cardiovascular Research Group, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Diabetes & Obesity, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Maria Antonella Burza

Contributed equally to this work with: Niina Matikainen, Maria Antonella Burza

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine/Wallenberg Laboratory, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Stefano Romeo

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine/Wallenberg Laboratory, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Antti Hakkarainen

Affiliation Medical Imaging Center, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Department of Radiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Martin Adiels

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine/Wallenberg Laboratory, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Lasse Folkersen

Affiliation Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Per Eriksson

Affiliation Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Nina Lundbom

Affiliation Medical Imaging Center, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Department of Radiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Ewa Ehrenborg

Affiliation Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Marju Orho-Melander

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Marja-Riitta Taskinen

MRT and JB are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation HUCH Heart and Lung Centre, Cardiovascular Research Group, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Diabetes & Obesity, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Jan Borén

Jan.Boren@wlab.gu.se

MRT and JB are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine/Wallenberg Laboratory, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NM MRT JB PE EE. Performed the experiments: NM AH NL MOM. Analyzed the data: NM MAB SR AH MA LF NL MRT JB. Wrote the manuscript: NM SR MRT JB.