About the Authors

Jan C. Holter

jancho@mail.uio.no

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Drammen Hospital, Vestre Viken Health Trust, Drammen, Norway, Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Thor Ueland

Affiliations Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, K.G. Jebsen Inflammatory Research Center, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Pål A. Jenum

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Medical Microbiology, Drammen Hospital, Vestre Viken Health Trust, Drammen, Norway

Fredrik Müller

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Microbiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway

Cathrine Brunborg

Affiliation Oslo Center of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Research Support Services, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Stig S. Frøland

Affiliations Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Section of Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway

Pål Aukrust

Affiliations Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, K.G. Jebsen Inflammatory Research Center, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Section of Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway

Einar Husebye

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Drammen Hospital, Vestre Viken Health Trust, Drammen, Norway, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Lars Heggelund

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Drammen Hospital, Vestre Viken Health Trust, Drammen, Norway, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCH TU SSF PA EH LH. Performed the experiments: JCH EH LH. Analyzed the data: JCH TU CB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PAJ FM. Wrote the paper: JCH LH. Made substantial intellectual contributions to the work, and commented and revised the report: TU PAJ FM CB SSF PA EH. Approved the final version of the manuscript: JCH TU PAJ FM CB SSF PA EH LH.