About the Authors

Mariann Gyöngyösi

Contributed equally to this work with: Mariann Gyöngyösi, Georgiana-Aura Giurgea

mariann.gyongyosi@meduniwien.ac.at

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

Georgiana-Aura Giurgea

Contributed equally to this work with: Mariann Gyöngyösi, Georgiana-Aura Giurgea

Affiliation Department of Angiology, Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Bonni Syeda

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

Silvia Charwat

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

Beatrice Marzluf

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

Julia Mascherbauer

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

Andras Jakab

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Abelina Zimba

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

Márta Sárközy

Affiliation Metabolic Diseases and Cell Signaling Group, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

Noemi Pavo

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

Heinz Sochor

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

Senta Graf

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

Irene Lang

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

Gerald Maurer

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

Jutta Bergler-Klein

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

on behalf of the MYSTAR investigators

Members of the MYSTAR investigators are listed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MG GAG SC JBK. Formal analysis: GAG BS BM JM AJ MS. Investigation: BS JM AZ NP SG IL JBK. Methodology: BS BM JM AJ MS. Project administration: AZ NP. Resources: GM IL SG HS. Software: AJ. Supervision: MG JBK. Validation: MG SG GAG HS AJ. Visualization: BM JM AJ MS HS SG IL GM. Writing – original draft: MG GAG JBK. Writing – review & editing: BS AJ NP.