About the Authors

Morten Krogh Christiansen

mkc@dadlnet.dk

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, Faculty of Health, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Sanne Bøjet Larsen

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, Faculty of Health, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Mette Nyegaard

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Søs Neergaard-Petersen

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

Ramzi Ajjan

Affiliation Leeds Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine (LICAMM), University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Morten Würtz

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

Erik Lerkevang Grove

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, Faculty of Health, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Anne-Mette Hvas

Affiliations Faculty of Health, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

Henrik Kjærulf Jensen

Contributed equally to this work with: Henrik Kjærulf Jensen, Steen Dalby Kristensen

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, Faculty of Health, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Steen Dalby Kristensen

Contributed equally to this work with: Henrik Kjærulf Jensen, Steen Dalby Kristensen

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, Faculty of Health, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Competing Interests

HKJ has received an unrestricted research grant from Pfizer, which was partly used to finance a minor part of the genetic analysis. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors report no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MKC HKJ SDK. Formal analysis: MKC. Funding acquisition: HKJ SDK. Investigation: MKC SBL MN SNP RA MW ELG AMH SDK. Writing – original draft: MKC. Writing – review & editing: SBL MN SNP RA MW ELG AMH HKJ SDK.