About the Authors

Mireen Friedrich-Rust

Mireen.Friedrich-Rust@kgu.de

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 1, J.W.Goethe-University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany

Gesine Meyer

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 1, J.W.Goethe-University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany

Nina Dauth

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 1, J.W.Goethe-University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany

Christian Berner

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 1, J.W.Goethe-University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany

Dimitra Bogdanou

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 1, J.W.Goethe-University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany

Eva Herrmann

Affiliation Institute of Biostatistics and Mathematical Modelling, Faculty of Medicine, J.W. Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany

Stefan Zeuzem

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 1, J.W.Goethe-University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany

Joerg Bojunga

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 1, J.W.Goethe-University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MFR GM ND CB DB EH SZ JB. Performed the experiments: MFR GM ND CB DB JB. Analyzed the data: MFR GM ND CB DB EH SZ JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MFR GM ND CB DB EH SZ JB. Wrote the paper: MFR GM ND CB DB EH SZ JB.