About the Authors

Charlène Insam

charlene.insam@insel.ch

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

Marie Méan

Contributed equally to this work with: Marie Méan, Andreas Limacher, Drahomir Aujesky

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

Andreas Limacher

Contributed equally to this work with: Marie Méan, Andreas Limacher, Drahomir Aujesky

Affiliation Clinical Trial Unit Bern, Department of Clinical Research and Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Anne Angelillo-Scherrer

Affiliation University Clinic of Hematology and Hematologic Central Laboratory, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

Markus Aschwanden

Affiliation Department of Angiology, Basel University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Martin Banyai

Affiliation Division of Angiology, Cantonal Hospital of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland

Juerg- Hans Beer

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Cantonal Hospital of Baden, Baden, Switzerland

Henri Bounameaux

Affiliation Division of Angiology and Hemostasis, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

Michael Egloff

Affiliation Division of Diabetology, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

Beat Frauchiger

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Cantonal Hospital of Frauenfeld, Frauenfeld, Switzerland

Marc Husmann

Affiliation Department of Angiology, Zurich University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

Nils Kucher

Affiliation Division of Angiology, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

Bernhard Lämmle

Affiliations University Clinic of Hematology and Hematologic Central Laboratory, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland, Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany

Christian Matter

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research, Institute of Physiology, Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Joseph Osterwalder

Affiliation Emergency Department, Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Marc Righini

Affiliation Division of Angiology and Hemostasis, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

Daniel Staub

Affiliation Department of Angiology, Basel University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Nicolas Rodondi

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

Drahomir Aujesky

Contributed equally to this work with: Marie Méan, Andreas Limacher, Drahomir Aujesky

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing intersts exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CI MM AL DA. Performed the experiments: MR JB BF JO NK AA NR CM MB ME MA MH HB BL DS. Analyzed the data: CI MM AL DA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AL. Wrote the paper: CI MM AL DA. Obtaining funding from Swiss National Science Foundation: MR JB BF JO NK AA NR DA.