About the Authors

Conrad P. Earnest

conrad.earnest@pbrc.edu

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Carl J. Lavie

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Steven N. Blair

Affiliations Department of Exercise Science, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America, The University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America

Timothy S. Church

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB CE. Performed the experiments: CE TC. Analyzed the data: CE TC. Wrote the paper: SB CE TC CL.