About the Authors

Inge Kirchberger

Inge.Kirchberger@helmholtz-muenchen.de

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, MONICA/KORA Myocardial Infarction Registry, Central Hospital of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Christa Meisinger

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, MONICA/KORA Myocardial Infarction Registry, Central Hospital of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Margit Heier

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, MONICA/KORA Myocardial Infarction Registry, Central Hospital of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Anja-Kerstin Zimmermann

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Barbara Thorand

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Christine S. Autenrieth

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Annette Peters

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Karl-Heinz Ladwig

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Angela Döring

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CM MH BT CSA AP K-HL AD. Performed the experiments: CM MH BT CSA AP K-HL AD. Analyzed the data: IK A-KZ. Wrote the paper: IK.