Author Artur Słomka is an associate professor in the Department of Pathophysiology at the Collegium Medicum Nicolaus Copernicus University in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and the head of the local branch of the Polish Society of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine. Artur Slomka's current and previous research interests include hemostatic risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, extracellular vesicles, and iron metabolism.