About the Authors

Christian Salbach

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Salbach, Mustafa Yildirim

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

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Mustafa Yildirim

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Salbach, Mustafa Yildirim

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

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Barbara Ruth Milles

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Hauke Hund

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Matthias Mueller-Hennessen

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Norbert Frey

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Hugo Katus

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Evangelos Giannitsis

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

evangelos.giannitsis@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

MMH received research funding from BRAHMS, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Roche Diagnostics. EG received honoraria for lectures from Roche Diagnostics, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Daiichi-Sankyo, Lilly Eli Deutschland. He serves as a consultant for Roche Diagnostics, BRAHMS, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Boehringer Ingelheim and has received research funding from BRAHMS, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Roche Diagnostics, Bayer Vital and Daiichi Sankyo. NF has received speaker honoraria from Daiichi Sankyo, Astra Zeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim and Bayer Vital. He serves as a consultant for CMS. BRM, received research funding from Daiichi Sankyo. There are no disclosures for MY, HH, HK and CS. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.