About the Authors

Fernando Agüero

Contributed equally to this work with: Fernando Agüero, Irene R. Dégano

Affiliations Department of Research in Inflammatory and Cardiovascular Disorders (RICAD), IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Parc de Salut Mar-Pompeu Fabra University-Public Health Agency of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Irene R. Dégano

Contributed equally to this work with: Fernando Agüero, Irene R. Dégano

Affiliation Department of Research in Inflammatory and Cardiovascular Disorders (RICAD), IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain

Isaac Subirana

Affiliations Department of Research in Inflammatory and Cardiovascular Disorders (RICAD), IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain, Epidemiology and Public Health CIBER (Centros de Investigación Biomédica en Red), Barcelona, Spain

Maria Grau

Affiliation Department of Research in Inflammatory and Cardiovascular Disorders (RICAD), IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain

Alberto Zamora

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Comarcal de Blanes, Girona, Spain

Joan Sala

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Hospital Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain

Rafel Ramos

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Research, IDIAP JGol (Institut d'Investigació en Atenció Primària Jordi Gol), Girona, Spain

Ricard Treserras

Affiliation Departament de Salut, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Jaume Marrugat

Affiliation Department of Research in Inflammatory and Cardiovascular Disorders (RICAD), IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain

Roberto Elosua

relosua@imim.es

Affiliation Department of Research in Inflammatory and Cardiovascular Disorders (RICAD), IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content and final version approval: FA IRD IS MG AZ JS RR RT JM RE. Conceived and designed the experiments: FA IRD RE. Performed the experiments: FA IRD. Analyzed the data: FA IRD IS JM RE. Wrote the paper: FA IRD RE.