About the Authors

Carlos A. Labarrere

clabarrere@sbcglobal.net

Affiliations CBL Partners for Life, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, California Medical Innovations Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

John R. Woods

Affiliation Methodist Research Institute at Indiana University Health and Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

James W. Hardin

Affiliation University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Beate R. Jaeger

Affiliation Dr. Stein und Kollegen, Mönchengladbach, Germany

Marian Zembala

Affiliation Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland

Mario C. Deng

Affiliation Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ghassan S. Kassab

Affiliation California Medical Innovations Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAL BRJ MZ MCD GSK. Performed the experiments: CAL GSK. Analyzed the data: CAL JRW JWH BRJ MZ MCD GSK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CAL JRW JWH MCD. Wrote the paper: CAL JRW JWH BRJ MZ MCD GSK.