About the Authors

Okan Arihan

Contributed equally to this work with: Okan Arihan, Bernhard Wernly

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Physiology, Van Yuzuncu Yil University Faculty of Medicine, Van, Turkey, Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

Bernhard Wernly

Contributed equally to this work with: Okan Arihan, Bernhard Wernly

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinic of Internal Medicine II, Department of Cardiology, Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

Michael Lichtenauer

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinic of Internal Medicine II, Department of Cardiology, Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

Marcus Franz

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinic of Internal Medicine I, Department of Cardiology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Bjoern Kabisch

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinic of Internal Medicine I, Department of Cardiology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Johanna Muessig

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

Maryna Masyuk

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

Alexander Lauten

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Charité–Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung (DZHK), Standort Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Paul Christian Schulze

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinic of Internal Medicine I, Department of Cardiology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Uta C. Hoppe

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinic of Internal Medicine II, Department of Cardiology, Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

Malte Kelm

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

Christian Jung

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

christian.jung@med.uni-duesseldorf.de

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.