About the Authors

Matthias Bossard

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias Bossard, Rahel Kreuzmann

‡ These authors are shared first authors on this work.

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Hamilton General Hospital, Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University, 237 Barton Street East, Hamilton, ON, L8L 2X2, Canada, Population Health Research Institute, David Braley Cardiac, Vascular and Stroke Research Institute, McMaster University, 237 Barton Street East, Hamilton, ON, L8L 2X2, Canada, Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 2, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

Rahel Kreuzmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias Bossard, Rahel Kreuzmann

‡ These authors are shared first authors on this work.

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 2, 4031, Basel, Switzerland, Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

Thomas Hochgruber

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 2, 4031, Basel, Switzerland, Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

Philipp Krisai

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 2, 4031, Basel, Switzerland, Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

Andreas J. Zimmermann

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 2, 4031, Basel, Switzerland, Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

Stefanie Aeschbacher

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 2, 4031, Basel, Switzerland, Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

Katrin Pumpol

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 2, 4031, Basel, Switzerland, Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

Arnheid Kessel-Schaefer

Affiliations Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 2, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

Frank-Peter Stephan

Affiliations Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 2, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

Nadja Handschin

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 2, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

Christian Sticherling

Affiliations Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 2, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

Stefan Osswald

Affiliations Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 2, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

Beat A. Kaufmann

Affiliations Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 2, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

Guillaume Paré

Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, David Braley Cardiac, Vascular and Stroke Research Institute, McMaster University, 237 Barton Street East, Hamilton, ON, L8L 2X2, Canada, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton ON, L8S 4K1, Canada

Michael Kühne

Affiliations Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 2, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

David Conen

david.conen@usb.ch

Affiliations Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 2, 4031, Basel, Switzerland, Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MB RK DC. Data curation: MB TH AZ SA KP NH BK GP DC. Formal analysis: MB PK SA DC. Funding acquisition: DC. Investigation: MB TH AZ SA KP AK FS NH BK GP MK DC. Methodology: MB RK BK DC. Project administration: SO BK MK DC. Resources: CS SO BK GP MK DC. Software: MB BK. Supervision: DC. Validation: MB TH AZ SA. Visualization: MB. Writing – original draft: MB RK DC. Writing – review & editing: TH AZ SA PK KP AK FS NH GP CS SO BK GP MK.