About the Authors
- Johannes Tobias Neumann
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Affiliation Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, Hamburg University Heart Center, Hamburg, Germany
- Aki S. Havulinna
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Affiliation National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, Helsinki, Finland
- Tanja Zeller
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Affiliations Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, Hamburg University Heart Center, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Hamburg/Lübeck/Kiel, Germany
- Sebastian Appelbaum
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Affiliation Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, Hamburg University Heart Center, Hamburg, Germany
- Tarja Kunnas
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Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Tampere Medical School, Tampere, Finland
- Seppo Nikkari
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Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Tampere Medical School, Tampere, Finland
- Pekka Jousilahti
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Affiliation National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, Helsinki, Finland
- Stefan Blankenberg
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Affiliations Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, Hamburg University Heart Center, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Hamburg/Lübeck/Kiel, Germany
- Karsten Sydow
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Affiliation Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, Hamburg University Heart Center, Hamburg, Germany
- Veikko Salomaa
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* E-mail: veikko.salomaa@thl.fi
Affiliation National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, Helsinki, Finland
Competing Interests
This study has received partial support from commercial sources (Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer, Abbott Diagnostics, SIEMENS, Thermo Fisher and Roche Diagnostics). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: VS SB. Performed the experiments: PJ VS. Analyzed the data: JTN ASH TZ SA VS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TZ. Wrote the paper: JTN ASH VS SB. Critical revision of the manuscript: TK SN PJ KS. Contributed important intellectual input: TK SN PJ KS.