About the Authors
- Imad Maatouk
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Contributed equally to this work with: Imad Maatouk, Beate Wild
* E-mail: imad.maatouk@med.uni-heidelberg.de
Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Beate Wild
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Contributed equally to this work with: Imad Maatouk, Beate Wild
Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Daniela Wesche
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Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Wolfgang Herzog
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Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Elke Raum
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Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
- Heiko Müller
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Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
- Dietrich Rothenbacher
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Affiliations Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany, Institute for Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
- Christa Stegmaier
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Affiliation Saarland Cancer Registry, Saarland Ministry of Public Health, Saarbrücken, Germany
- Dieter Schellberg
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Hermann Brenner
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HB CS DR ER HM. Performed the experiments: HB CS DR ER HM. Analyzed the data: IM DW DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WH. Wrote the paper: IM BW. Interpretation of data: IM WH DW BW. Drafting or revising the article critically for important intellectual content: IM BW DW WH ER HM DR CS DS HB. Final approval of the version to be published: IM BW DW WH ER HM DR CS DS HB.