About the Authors

Ivana Kern

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

Ivana.Kern1@tu-dresden.de

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences/Public Health, Institute and Policlinic for Occupational and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine „Carl Gustav Carus”, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Olaf Schoffer

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Evidence-based Healthcare, University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine “Carl Gustav Carus”, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Thomas Richter

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

Affiliation Clinic for Children and Adolescents, Hospital St. Georg, Leipzig, Germany

Wieland Kiess

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

Affiliation Center for Pediatric Research, Department of Women and Child Health, Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Gunter Flemming

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Pediatric Research, Department of Women and Child Health, Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Ulf Winkler

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinic for Children and Adolescents, Hospital Bautzen, Oberlausitz-Hospitals, Bautzen, Germany

Jürgen Quietzsch

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinic for Children and Adolescents, DRK Hospital Lichtenstein, Lichtenstein, Germany

Olaf Wenzel

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinic for Children and Adolescents, Helios Hospital Aue, Bad Schlema, Germany

Marlen Zurek

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

Affiliation Clinic for Children and Adolescents, Hospital St. Georg, Leipzig, Germany

Ulf Manuwald

Roles Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences/Public Health, Institute and Policlinic for Occupational and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine „Carl Gustav Carus”, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Janice Hegewald

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Occupational, Social and Environmental Epidemiology, Institute and Policlinic for Occupational and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine „Carl Gustav Carus”, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Shi Li

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

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences/Public Health, Institute and Policlinic for Occupational and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine „Carl Gustav Carus”, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Jens Weidner

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Medical Informatics, Institute for Medical Informatics and Biometry, Faculty of Medicine “Carl Gustav Carus”, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Jan de Laffolie

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

Affiliation Department of General Pediatrics, Children’s Gastroenterology/ Hepatology/ Nutrition, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, CEDATA-GPGE Working Group, Gießen, Germany

Klaus-Peter Zimmer

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

Affiliation Department of General Pediatrics, Children’s Gastroenterology/ Hepatology/ Nutrition, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, CEDATA-GPGE Working Group, Gießen, Germany

Joachim Kugler

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

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences/Public Health, Institute and Policlinic for Occupational and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine „Carl Gustav Carus”, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Martin W. Laass

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ MWL and UR contributed equally to this work and share senior authorship.

Affiliation University Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Faculty of Medicine “Carl Gustav Carus”, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Ulrike Rothe

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ MWL and UR contributed equally to this work and share senior authorship.

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences/Public Health, Institute and Policlinic for Occupational and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine „Carl Gustav Carus”, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s guidelines, and the authors of this manuscript have provided the following: The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article. Unrelated to this study, OS served as a consultant for Novartis, JdL acted as a consultant for AbbVie Takeda and received research support from Dr. Falk Pharma. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.