About the Authors
- Christian Salbach
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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
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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
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Roles Data curation
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Hauke Hund
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Roles Data curation
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Matthias Mueller-Hennessen
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Roles Data curation
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Norbert Frey
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Roles Resources, Supervision
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Hugo Katus
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Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Evangelos Giannitsis
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: 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.