About the Authors

Anne Springer

Contributed equally to this work with: Anne Springer, Andreas U. Monsch

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

anne.springer@usb.ch

Affiliations Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), Basel, Switzerland

Andreas U. Monsch

Contributed equally to this work with: Anne Springer, Andreas U. Monsch

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

Affiliations Memory Clinic, University Department of Geriatric Medicine FELIX PLATTER, Basel, Switzerland, Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Gilles Dutilh

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

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, Clinical Trial Unit, University of Basel Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Michael Coslovsky

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), Basel, Switzerland, Department of Clinical Research, Clinical Trial Unit, University of Basel Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Rogier A. Kievit

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Leo H. Bonati

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Stroke Center, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

David Conen

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), Basel, Switzerland, Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Stefanie Aeschbacher

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), Basel, Switzerland

Juerg H. Beer

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Cantonal Hospital of Baden and Molecular Cardiology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Matthias Schwenkglenks

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Urs Fischer

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland

Christine S. Meyer-Zuern

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), Basel, Switzerland

Giulio Conte

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiocentro Ticino, Lugano, Switzerland

Elisavet Moutzouri

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital Bern, University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Giorgio Moschovitis

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Division of Cardiology, Ospedale Regionale di Lugano EOC, Lugano, Switzerland

Michael Kühne

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), Basel, Switzerland

Stefan Osswald

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), Basel, Switzerland

on behalf of the Swiss-AF Study Investigators

A list of all Swiss-AF investigators is provided in S1 File.

Competing Interests

DC has received consultant/speaker fees from Servier Canada outside of the submitted work; GC reports a research grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation, and research grants from Boston Scientific Inc., outside of this work; JHB reports grants from the Swiss National Foundation of Science, The Swiss Heart Foundation, grants from Bayer, lecture fees from Sanofi Aventis and Amgen, to the institution outside of this work; LHB received grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation, The Swiss Heart Foundation, an unrestricted research grant from AstraZeneca, and consultancy or advisory board fees or speaker’s honoraria from Amgen, Bayer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Claret Medical, and travel grants from AstraZeneca and Bayer, all outside of this work; MK reports personal fees from Bayer, personal fees from Böhringer Ingelheim, personal fees from Pfizer BMS, personal fees from Daiichi Sankyo, personal fees from Medtronic, personal fees from Biotronik, personal fees from Boston Scientific, personal fees from Johnson & Johnson, grants from Bayer, grants from Pfizer BMS, grants from Boston Scientific, all outside of this work. CSZ reports a research grant from Medtronic and speaker fees from Vifor Pharma and Novartis, outside of this work. RS of the study group Swiss-AF Study Investigators is employed by Schiller AG Baar. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.