About the Authors

Petr Kala

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Nela Hudakova

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Michal Jurajda

Affiliation Department of Pathological Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Tomas Kasparek

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Libor Ustohal

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Jiri Parenica

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Marek Sebo

Affiliation Centre of Cardiovascular and Transplantation Surgery, Brno, Czech Republic

Maria Holicka

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Jan Kanovsky

jkanovsky@fnbrno.cz

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PK JK TK JP MS. Performed the experiments: JK JP LU MS. Analyzed the data: NH MJ MH. Wrote the paper: PK JK NH.