About the Authors

Delrae M. Eckman

Contributed equally to this work with: Delrae M. Eckman, R. Brandon Stacey

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

R. Brandon Stacey

Contributed equally to this work with: Delrae M. Eckman, R. Brandon Stacey

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine (Section on Cardiology), Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Robert Rowe

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Ralph D′Agostino Jr

Affiliation Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Nancy D. Kock

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

David C. Sane

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine Division of Cardiology, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America

Frank M. Torti

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Joseph Yeboah

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine (Section on Cardiology), Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Susan Workman

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine (Section on Cardiology), Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Kimberly S. Lane

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine (Section on Cardiology), Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

W. Gregory Hundley

ghundley@wakehealth.edu

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine (Section on Cardiology), Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Departments of Internal Medicine (Section on Cardiology) and Radiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Scientific and editorial support: DE FT RR DS JY SW KL. Conceived and designed the experiments: WGH NK. Performed the experiments: NK WGH. Analyzed the data: DME RBS RR RD SW KL WGH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NK WGH. Wrote the paper: DME RBS WGH.