About the Authors

Alberto Giannoni

Contributed equally to this work with: Alberto Giannoni, Resham Baruah

alberto.giannoni@gmail.com

Affiliations International Centre for Circulatory Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Fondazione Toscana G. Monasterio, Pisa, Italy

Resham Baruah

Contributed equally to this work with: Alberto Giannoni, Resham Baruah

Affiliation International Centre for Circulatory Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Tora Leong

Affiliation International Centre for Circulatory Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Michaela B. Rehman

Affiliation Cardiology Department, Poitiers University Hospital, Poitiers, France

Luigi Emilio Pastormerlo

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Fondazione Toscana G. Monasterio, Pisa, Italy

Frank E. Harrell

Affiliation Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Andrew J. S. Coats

Affiliations International Centre for Circulatory Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

Darrel P. Francis

Affiliation International Centre for Circulatory Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG RB AJC DPF. Performed the experiments: AG RB TL MR LEP DPF. Analyzed the data: AG RB FEH AJC DPF. Wrote the paper: AG RB FEH DPF.