About the Authors

Mehrdad Arjomandi

mehrdad.arjomandi@ucsf.edu

Affiliations University of California San Francisco Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute Center of Excellence, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Thaddeus Haight

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Nasrat Sadeghi

Affiliation Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Rita Redberg

Affiliations University of California San Francisco Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute Center of Excellence, San Francisco, California, United States of America, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Warren M. Gold

Affiliations University of California San Francisco Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute Center of Excellence, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WMG MA. Performed the experiments: WMG MA. Analyzed the data: MA TH WMG NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WMG MA TH. Wrote the paper: MA WMG. Obtained funding: WMG MA RR. Recruited Subjects: RR MA WMG.