About the Authors

Krzysztof Bojakowski

Contributed equally to this work with: Krzysztof Bojakowski, Mensur Dzabic

Affiliations Department of General, Vascular and Oncologic Surgery, Warsaw University of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland, Department of Internal Medicine and Hypertension, Warsaw University of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland

Mensur Dzabic

Contributed equally to this work with: Krzysztof Bojakowski, Mensur Dzabic

mensur.dzabic@ki.se (MD); piotr.religa@ki.se (PR)

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Ewa Kurzejamska

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Grzegorz Styczynski

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Hypertension, Warsaw University of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland

Piotr Andziak

Affiliation Department of General, Vascular and Oncologic Surgery, Warsaw University of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland

Zbigniew Gaciong

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Hypertension, Warsaw University of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland

Cecilia Söderberg-Nauclér

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Piotr Religa

mensur.dzabic@ki.se (MD); piotr.religa@ki.se (PR)

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KB MD PR. Performed the experiments: KB MD EK PR. Analyzed the data: MD KB PR EK GS PA ZG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PR CSN KB GS PA ZG. Wrote the paper: MD KB PR CSN.