About the Authors

Georg Goliasch

georg.goliasch@meduniwien.ac.at (GG); diana.bonderman@meduniwien.ac.at (DB)

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Caroline Zotter-Tufaro

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Stefan Aschauer

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Franz Duca

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Benedikt Koell

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Andreas A. Kammerlander

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Robin Ristl

Affiliation Section for Medical Statistics, Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Irene M. Lang

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Gerald Maurer

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Julia Mascherbauer

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Diana Bonderman

georg.goliasch@meduniwien.ac.at (GG); diana.bonderman@meduniwien.ac.at (DB)

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

DB and IML have received grants and consulting fees from Bayer Healthcare, United Therapeutics, Actelion, AOP, GSK, and Pfizer. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GG SA AAK RR JM DB. Performed the experiments: GG CZT SA FD BK AAK JM DB. Analyzed the data: GG RR DB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CZT SA FD BK AAK. Wrote the paper: GG DB RR IML GM JM DB.