About the Authors

Heli M. Lahtela

Affiliation Heart Center, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Tuomas O. Kiviniemi

Affiliation Heart Center, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Marja K. Puurunen

Affiliation Hemostasis laboratory, Finnish Red Cross Blood Service, Helsinki, Finland

Axel Schlitt

Affiliation Medical Faculty, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Paracelsus-Harz-Clinic Bad Suderode, Halle, Germany

Andrea Rubboli

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Laboratory of Interventional Cardiology, Ospedale Maggiore, Bologna, Italy

Antti Ylitalo

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Lapland Central Hospital, Rovaniemi, Finland; Medical Research Center, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

José Valencia

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, General Hospital University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Gregory Y. H. Lip

Affiliation University of Birmingham Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, City Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom

K. E. Juhani Airaksinen

juhani.airaksinen@tyks.fi

Affiliation Heart Center, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HML TOK KEJA AS AR. Performed the experiments: TOK AS AR AY JV. Analyzed the data: HML TOK KEJA. Wrote the paper: HML TOK MKP AR AY JV GYHL AS KEJA.