About the Authors

Ingrid Sander

Sander@ipa-dguv.de

Affiliation Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany

Eva Zahradnik

Affiliation Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany

Gerhard Kraus

Affiliation German Social Accident Insurance Institution for the energy, textile, electrical and media products sectors (BGETEM), Augsburg, Germany

Stefan Mayer

Affiliation German Social Accident Insurance Institution for the trade and distribution industry (BGHW), Mannheim, Germany

Heinz-Dieter Neumann

Affiliation German Social Accident Insurance Institution for the public sector in North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Germany

Christina Fleischer

Affiliation Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany

Thomas Brüning

Affiliation Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany

Monika Raulf-Heimsoth

Affiliation Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IS EZ GK TB MR. Performed the experiments: IS EZ GK SM HN CF. Analyzed the data: IS EZ MR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IS EZ GK SM HN CF MR. Wrote the paper: IS EZ CF MR. Revised the manuscript: GK SM HN TB.