About the Authors

Felix Heggemann

Contributed equally to this work with: Felix Heggemann, Karsten Hamm

felixheggemann@gmx.de

Affiliation First Medical Department, University Medical Center Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Karsten Hamm

Contributed equally to this work with: Felix Heggemann, Karsten Hamm

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Center of Cardiovascular Medicine, Bad Neustadt, Germany

Joachim Brade

Affiliation Department of Biometrics and Statistics, University Medical Center Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Florian Streitner

Affiliation First Medical Department, University Medical Center Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Christina Doesch

Affiliation First Medical Department, University Medical Center Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Theano Papavassiliu

Affiliation First Medical Department, University Medical Center Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Martin Borggrefe

Affiliation First Medical Department, University Medical Center Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Dariusch Haghi

Affiliation First Medical Department, University Medical Center Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FH KH DH TP CD FS. Performed the experiments: FH KH DH. Analyzed the data: FH KH DH JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB FS. Wrote the paper: FH DH KH.