About the Authors

Jonne J. Sikkens

Contributed equally to this work with: Jonne J. Sikkens, Djoeke G. Beekman

j.sikkens@vumc.nl (JJS); y.smulders@vumc.nl (YMS)

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, VU university medical centre, 1081HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Djoeke G. Beekman

Contributed equally to this work with: Jonne J. Sikkens, Djoeke G. Beekman

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, VU university medical centre, 1081HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Abel Thijs

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, VU university medical centre, 1081HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Patrick M. Bossuyt

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Yvo M. Smulders

j.sikkens@vumc.nl (JJS); y.smulders@vumc.nl (YMS)

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, VU university medical centre, 1081HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JJS DGB YMS. Performed the experiments: JJS DGB. Analyzed the data: JJS DGB YMS AT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJS PMB. Wrote the paper: JJS DGB YMS AT PMB.