About the Authors

Hanjue Xia

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics and Informatics (IMEBI), Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Medical School of the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Johannes Horn

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics and Informatics (IMEBI), Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Medical School of the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Monika J. Piotrowska

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Konrad Sakowski

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

André Karch

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Hannan Tahir

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Julius Center for Health Sciences & Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Mirjam Kretzschmar

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Julius Center for Health Sciences & Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Rafael Mikolajczyk

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

rafael.mikolajczyk@uk-halle.de

Affiliation Institute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics and Informatics (IMEBI), Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Medical School of the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.