About the Authors

Frank Sauerbier

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics, and Informatics, Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Johannes Haerting

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics, and Informatics, Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Daniel Sedding

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Rafael Mikolajczyk

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics, and Informatics, Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Karl Werdan

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Sebastian Nuding

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Karin H. Greiser

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Cees A. Swenne

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiology Department, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Jan A. Kors

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Alexander Kluttig

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

alexander.kluttig@uk-halle.de

Affiliation Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics, and Informatics, Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.