About the Authors

Partha Sardar

parthasardarmd@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Medicine, New York Medical College, Metropolitan Hospital Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Saurav Chatterjee

Affiliation Brown University and the Providence VAMC, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Wen-Chih Wu

Affiliation Brown University and the Providence VAMC, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Edgar Lichstein

Affiliation Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Joydeep Ghosh

Affiliation Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Shamik Aikat

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Gill Heart Institute, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Debabrata Mukherjee

Affiliation Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS SC WCW EL JG SA DM. Analyzed the data: PS SC SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PS SC DM. Wrote the manuscript: PS SC WCW EL JG SA DM. Performed the indirect comparison analysis: PS SC.