About the Authors

Georg Semmler

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

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital Oberndorf, Teaching Hospital of the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Oberndorf, Salzburg, Austria

Sebastian Bachmayer

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital Oberndorf, Teaching Hospital of the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Oberndorf, Salzburg, Austria

Sarah Wernly

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital Oberndorf, Teaching Hospital of the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Oberndorf, Salzburg, Austria

Bernhard Wernly

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Second Department of Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

David Niederseer

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Ursula Huber-Schönauer

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital Oberndorf, Teaching Hospital of the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Oberndorf, Salzburg, Austria

Felix Stickel

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Elmar Aigner

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

Christian Datz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

c.datz@kh-oberndorf.at

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital Oberndorf, Teaching Hospital of the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Oberndorf, Salzburg, Austria

Competing Interests

All authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest regarding the submitted work. The following authors disclose conflicts of interests outside the submitted work: C.D. is a member of the scientific advisory board of SPAR Österreichische Warenhandels-AG. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.