About the Authors

Mehdi Najafzadeh

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Carlo A. Marra

Affiliations Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Larry D. Lynd

Affiliations Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Mohsen Sadatsafavi

Affiliations Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

J. Mark FitzGerald

Affiliations Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, The Institute for Heart and Lung Health (the UBC James Hogg Research Laboratories), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Bruce McManus

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, and The Prevention of Organ Failure Center of Excellence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, The Institute for Heart and Lung Health (the UBC James Hogg Research Laboratories), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Don Sin

don.sin@hli.ubc.ca

Affiliations Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, The Institute for Heart and Lung Health (the UBC James Hogg Research Laboratories), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS CM LL BM. Performed the experiments: MN. Analyzed the data: MN MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM LL DS MN BM JMF. Wrote the paper: CM LL DS BM MN JMF MS.