About the Authors

Christoph Hammerstingl

Contributed equally to this work with: Christoph Hammerstingl, Robert Schueler

Affiliation University of Bonn, Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, Pulmonology and Angiology, Bonn, Germany

Robert Schueler

Contributed equally to this work with: Christoph Hammerstingl, Robert Schueler

robert.schueler@ukb.uni-bonn.de

Affiliation University of Bonn, Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, Pulmonology and Angiology, Bonn, Germany

Martin Wiesen

Affiliation University of Bonn, Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, Pulmonology and Angiology, Bonn, Germany

Diana Momcilovic

Affiliation University of Bonn, Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, Pulmonology and Angiology, Bonn, Germany

Stefan Pabst

Affiliation University of Bonn, Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, Pulmonology and Angiology, Bonn, Germany

Georg Nickenig

Affiliation University of Bonn, Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, Pulmonology and Angiology, Bonn, Germany

Dirk Skowasch

Affiliation University of Bonn, Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, Pulmonology and Angiology, Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS CH GN DS. Performed the experiments: RS CH MW. Analyzed the data: RS CH DM SP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS CH DS GN. Wrote the paper: RS CH DS.