About the Authors

Andreas Auensen

andreas.auensen@medisin.uio.no

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Centre for Heart Failure Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Amjad Iqbal Hussain

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Centre for Heart Failure Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Ragnhild Sørum Falk

Affiliation Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Research Support Services, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, Oslo, Norway

Marte Meyer Walle-Hansen

Contributed equally to this work with: Marte Meyer Walle-Hansen, Jorun Bye

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Jorun Bye

Contributed equally to this work with: Marte Meyer Walle-Hansen, Jorun Bye

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Kjell Ingar Pettersen

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Pål Aukrust

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Section of Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway

Thor Ueland

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, K.G. Jebsen Thrombosis Research and Expertise Center, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Lars Lysgaard Gullestad

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Centre for Heart Failure Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AA TU LLG PA AIH KIP RSF. Data curation: AA TU AIH MMWH JB. Formal analysis: AA TU RSF. Funding acquisition: LLG. Investigation: AA TU AIH MMWH JB. Methodology: AA TU LLG AIH RSF. Project administration: AA LLG. Resources: AA TU LLG AIH KIP MMWH JB. Software: AA AIH TU RSF. Supervision: TU LLG. Validation: TU AA. Visualization: AA TU LLG. Writing – original draft: AA TU LLG. Writing – review & editing: AA TU LLG PA AIH KIP MMWH JB RSF.