About the Authors

Martin Rehm

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Gisela Büchele

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

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Raphael Simon Peter

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

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Rolf Erwin Brenner

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

Affiliation Division for Biochemistry of Joint and Connective Tissue Diseases, Department of Orthopedics, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Klaus-Peter Günther

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

Affiliation University Center of Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Hermann Brenner

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

Affiliations Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Wolfgang Koenig

Contributed equally to this work with: Wolfgang Koenig, Dietrich Rothenbacher

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

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany

Dietrich Rothenbacher

Contributed equally to this work with: Wolfgang Koenig, Dietrich Rothenbacher

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

dietrich.rothenbacher@uni-ulm.de

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.