About the Authors

Caroline Morbach

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University Hospital and University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Department of Medicine I, Cardiology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Floran Sahiti

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

Affiliations Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University Hospital and University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Department of Medicine I, Cardiology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Theresa Tiffe

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University Hospital and University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Institute of Clinical Epidemiology and Biometry, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Vladimir Cejka

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University Hospital and University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Felizitas A. Eichner

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University Hospital and University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Institute of Clinical Epidemiology and Biometry, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Götz Gelbrich

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

Affiliations Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University Hospital and University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Institute of Clinical Epidemiology and Biometry, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Clinical Trial Center, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Peter U. Heuschmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter U. Heuschmann, Stefan Störk

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

Affiliations Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University Hospital and University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Institute of Clinical Epidemiology and Biometry, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Clinical Trial Center, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Stefan Störk

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter U. Heuschmann, Stefan Störk

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Stoerk_S@ukw.de

Affiliations Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University Hospital and University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Department of Medicine I, Cardiology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

On behalf of the STAAB consortium

Membership of the STAAB consortium group is listed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

Caroline Morbach reports a research cooperation with the University of Würzburg and Tomtec Imaging Systems funded by a research grant from the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, Germany, speakers honorarium from Amgen, Alnylam and Tomtec, a travel grant from Orion Pharma and Alnylam, and participation in Advisory and Patient Eligibility Boards sponsored by AKCEA, Alnylam, Pfizer and EBR Systems outside the submitted work. Floran Sahiti has nothing to disclose Theresa Tiffe has nothing to disclose. Vladimir Cejka has nothing to disclose. Felizitas Eichner has nothing to disclose Götz Gelbrich reports a research cooperation with the University Hospital Würzburg and TomTec Imaging Systems funded by a research grant from the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, Germany, and a grant from the German Research Council (DFG) as the senior biometrician of the FIND-AF II trial outside the submitted work. Peter Heuschmann reports grants from German Ministry of Research and Education, European Union, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin Chamber of Physicians, German Parkinson Society, University Hospital Würzburg, Robert Koch Institute, German Heart Foundation, Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) within the Innovationfond, University Hospital Heidelberg (within RASUNOA-prime; RASUNOA-prime is supported by an unrestricted research grant to the University Hospital Heidelberg from Bayer, BMS, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Daiichi Sankyo), grants from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (within Mondafis; Mondafis is supported by an unrestricted research grant to the Charité from Bayer), from University Göttingen (within FIND-AF randomized; FIND-AF randomized is supported by an unrestricted research grant to the University Göttingen from Boehringer-Ingelheim), outside the submitted work. Stefan Störk reports research grants from the German Ministry of Education and Research, European Union, University Hospital Würzburg; participation in Data Safety Monitoring or Event Adjudication in studies sponsored by Roche, Medtronic; participation in Advisory Boards for Novartis, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Thermo-Fisher, Boston Scientific; principal investigator in trials (co-) sponsored by Boehringer-Ingelheim, Novartis, Bayer, Lundbeck; speaker honoraria by Boehringer-Ingelheim, Servier, Novartis, Astra-Zeneca, Pfizer, Bayer, Thermo-Fisher, outside the submitted work. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.