About the Authors

Moritz F. Sinner

Contributed equally to this work with: Moritz F. Sinner, Wibke Reinhard, Martina Müller, Christian Hengstenberg, Stefan Kääb

Affiliation University Hospital Munich, Campus Grosshadern, Medical Department I, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany

Wibke Reinhard

Contributed equally to this work with: Moritz F. Sinner, Wibke Reinhard, Martina Müller, Christian Hengstenberg, Stefan Kääb

Affiliation Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin II, Universitätsklinikum Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Martina Müller

Contributed equally to this work with: Moritz F. Sinner, Wibke Reinhard, Martina Müller, Christian Hengstenberg, Stefan Kääb

Affiliations University Hospital Munich, Campus Grosshadern, Medical Department I, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Britt-Maria Beckmann

Affiliation University Hospital Munich, Campus Grosshadern, Medical Department I, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany

Eimo Martens

Affiliation University Hospital Munich, Campus Grosshadern, Medical Department I, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany

Siegfried Perz

Affiliation Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Arne Pfeufer

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Human Genetics, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany

Janina Winogradow

Affiliation Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin II, Universitätsklinikum Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Klaus Stark

Affiliation Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin II, Universitätsklinikum Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Christa Meisinger

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

H.-Erich Wichmann

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, Germany

Annette Peters

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Günter A. J. Riegger

Affiliation Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin II, Universitätsklinikum Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Gerhard Steinbeck

Affiliation University Hospital Munich, Campus Grosshadern, Medical Department I, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany

Christian Hengstenberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Moritz F. Sinner, Wibke Reinhard, Martina Müller, Christian Hengstenberg, Stefan Kääb

Affiliation Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin II, Universitätsklinikum Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Stefan Kääb

Contributed equally to this work with: Moritz F. Sinner, Wibke Reinhard, Martina Müller, Christian Hengstenberg, Stefan Kääb

skaab@med.lmu.de

Affiliation University Hospital Munich, Campus Grosshadern, Medical Department I, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: MFS WR MM BMB EM SP AP JW KS CM HEW AP GAJR GS CH SK. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: MFS WR MM BMB EM SP AP JW KS CM HEW AP GAJR GS CH SK. Designed the experiments/the study: MFS WR BMB SP AP CH SK. Analyzed the data: MFS WR MM EM JW SK. Collected data/did experiments for the study: MFS WR BMB EM SP JW CM AP CH. Enrolled patients: HEW. Wrote the first draft of the paper: MFS WR CH. Contributed to the writing of the paper: MFS MM BMB SP AP KS CM AP GAJR GS CH SK. Responsible for data integrity: MFS. Responsible for the quality of the ECG data: SP. Critical revision for important intellectual content: GAJR GS.