About the Authors
- Simon Johannes Gairing
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft
Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, Cirrhosis Center Mainz (CCM), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
- Peter Robert Galle
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, Cirrhosis Center Mainz (CCM), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
- Jörn Markus Schattenberg
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Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, Cirrhosis Center Mainz (CCM), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
- Karel Kostev
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Epidemiology, IQVIA, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Christian Labenz
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft
* E-mail: Christian.labenz@unimedizin-mainz.de
Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, Cirrhosis Center Mainz (CCM), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
Competing Interests
Krael Kostev is Scientific Principal-Epidemiology Research at IMS Health (IQVIA) in Frankfurt (Germany). However, IQVIA has no influence on the content or publication of this manuscript. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors disclose no potential financial or non-financial conflicts of interest.