About the Authors

Claudia Sikorski

Claudia.Sikorski@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliations Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Leipzig University Medical Center, IFB AdiposityDiseases, Leipzig, Germany

Melanie Luppa

Affiliation Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Siegfried Weyerer

Affiliation Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

Hans-Helmut König

Affiliation Department of Medical Sociology, Social Medicine and Health Economics, Hamburg-Eppendorf University Medical Center, Hamburg, Germany

Wolfgang Maier

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Gerhard Schön

Affiliation Department of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, Hamburg-Eppendorf University Medical Center, Hamburg, Germany

Juliana J. Petersen

Affiliation Institute of General Practice, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Jochen Gensichen

Affiliation Department of General Practice, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Angela Fuchs

Affiliation Department of General Practice, Medical Faculty, University of Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

Horst Bickel

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Technical University of Munich, München, Germany

Birgitt Wiese

Affiliation Institute for Biometry, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Heike Hansen

Affiliation Department of Primary Medical Care, Hamburg-Eppendorf University Medical Center, Hamburg, Germany

Hendrik van den Bussche

Affiliation Department of Primary Medical Care, Hamburg-Eppendorf University Medical Center, Hamburg, Germany

Martin Scherer

Affiliation Department of Primary Medical Care, Hamburg-Eppendorf University Medical Center, Hamburg, Germany

Steffi G. Riedel-Heller

Affiliation Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS ML BW SRH SW HHK WM GS JJP JG AF HB HH HvdB MS. Performed the experiments: ML BW SRH SW HHK WM GS JJP JG AF HB HH HvdB MS. Analyzed the data: CS ML SRH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS ML BW SRH SW HHK WM GS JJP JG AF HB HH HvdB MS. Wrote the paper: CS.