About the Authors

Esther Stroe-Kunold

Contributed equally to this work with: Esther Stroe-Kunold, Magdalena Buckert

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Medical University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Magdalena Buckert

Contributed equally to this work with: Esther Stroe-Kunold, Magdalena Buckert

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Medical University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Hans-Christoph Friederich

Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR-Clinics, University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Daniela Wesche

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Medical University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Stefan Kopf

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Clinical Chemistry, Medical University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Wolfgang Herzog

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Medical University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Beate Wild

beate.wild@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Medical University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ESK MB WH BW. Data curation: ESK DW BW. Formal analysis: ESK BW. Funding acquisition: WH BW. Investigation: ESK MB DW BW. Methodology: DW SK BW. Project administration: DW BW. Resources: HCF SK. Software: BW. Supervision: HCF BW. Validation: ESK MB HCF BW. Visualization: ESK. Writing – original draft: ESK MB. Writing – review & editing: ESK MB HCF SK WH BW.