About the Authors

Bernhard Haring

Haring_B@ukw.de

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany

Noelle Gronroos

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Jennifer A. Nettleton

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Moritz C. Wyler von Ballmoos

Affiliation Department of Surgery & Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Froedtert Memorial Hospital & Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Elizabeth Selvin

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Alvaro Alonso

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BH NG JN MWvB ES AA. Performed the experiments: ES JN BH AA. Analyzed the data: AA NG BH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JN NG ES BH MWvB AA. Wrote the paper: BH NG JN MWvB ES AA.