About the Authors

Julia Lamparter

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

julia.lamparter@unimedizin-mainz.de

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Augenzentrum Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany

Irene Schmidtmann

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biometry, Epidemiology, and Informatics (IMBEI) of the University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Alexander K. Schuster

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Angeliki Siouli

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Clinic for Ophthalmology, Klinikum Frankfurt Höchst, Frankfurt, Germany

Joanna Wasielica-Poslednik

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Alireza Mirshahi

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Dardenne Eye Hospital, Bonn, Germany

René Höhn

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Department of Ophthalmology, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Josef Unterrainer

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Philipp S. Wild

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Preventive Cardiology and Preventive Medicine / Center for Cardiology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis (CTH), University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), partner site Rhine-Main, Mainz, Germany

Harald Binder

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biometry, Epidemiology, and Informatics (IMBEI) of the University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Karl Lackner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Manfred E. Beutel

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Thomas Münzel

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Cardiology I, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Norbert Pfeiffer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Esther M. Hoffmann

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Competing Interests

The Gutenberg Health Study received funding from Boehringer Ingelheim and PHILIPS Medical Systems. This analysis was supported by Novartis Pharma GmbH and Heidelberg Engineering. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.