About the Authors

Willemijn A. van Maarschalkerwaart

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

w.a.vanmaarschalkerwaart@olvg.nl

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, OLVG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Eric Wierda

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Dijklander Ziekenhuis, Hoorn, The Netherlands

Dominique de Boer

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Dijklander Ziekenhuis, Hoorn, The Netherlands

Nini H. Jonkman

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Research and Epidemiology, OLVG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Eric Boersma

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Thorax Center, Cardiovascular Institute, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Jasper J. Brugts

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Thorax Center, Cardiovascular Institute, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Loek van Heerebeek

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, OLVG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: J.B. reports speaker/advisory engagements to AstraZeneca, Abbott, Bayer, Boehringer, Novartis and Vifor (3 year period), all outside the submitted work. L.v.H. received funding from AstraZeneca which provided a contribution to the salary of W.v.M. The funder did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors declare they have no competing interests.