About the Authors

Daniel Rob

Affiliation 2nd Department of Medicine - Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic

Josef Marek

Affiliation 2nd Department of Medicine - Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic

Gabriela Dostálová

Affiliation 2nd Department of Medicine - Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic

Lubor Goláň

Affiliation 2nd Department of Medicine - Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic

Aleš Linhart

alinh@lf1.cuni.cz

Affiliation 2nd Department of Medicine - Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic

Competing Interests

Daniel Rob received travel grants for meetings from SHIRE HGT and Berlin-Chemie AG. Josef Marek received consulting fees and honoraria from SHIRE HGT and Genzyme a Sanofi Company. Gabriela Dostalova received consulting fees and honoraria from SHIRE HGT and Genzyme a Sanofi Company. Lubor Golan received consulting fees and honoraria from SHIRE HGT and Genzyme a Sanofi Company. Ales Linhart received consulting fees and honoraria from SHIRE HGT, Genzyme a Sanofi Company and Amicus Therapeutics. There are no other competing interests to report. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DR AL JM. Data curation: DR JM AL. Formal analysis: JM AL DR GD. Funding acquisition: AL. Investigation: AL JM DR LG GD. Methodology: AL JM DR. Project administration: DR JM GD. Resources: AL DR. Software: JM DR GD. Supervision: AL LG. Validation: DR AL JM GD LG. Visualization: JM DR AL. Writing – original draft: DR AL JM. Writing – review & editing: DR AL JM.