Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN) is independently associated with mortality in critically ill patients admitted to ICU

• Okan Arihan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Okan Arihan, Bernhard Wernly

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Physiology, Van Yuzuncu Yil University Faculty of Medicine, Van, Turkey, Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

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• Bernhard Wernly ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Okan Arihan, Bernhard Wernly

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic of Internal Medicine II, Department of Cardiology, Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4024-0220

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• Michael Lichtenauer,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic of Internal Medicine II, Department of Cardiology, Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

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• Marcus Franz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic of Internal Medicine I, Department of Cardiology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

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• Bjoern Kabisch,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic of Internal Medicine I, Department of Cardiology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

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• Johanna Muessig,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

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• Maryna Masyuk,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

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• Alexander Lauten,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Charité–Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung (DZHK), Standort Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Paul Christian Schulze,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic of Internal Medicine I, Department of Cardiology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

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• Uta C. Hoppe,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic of Internal Medicine II, Department of Cardiology, Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

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• Malte Kelm,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

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• Christian Jung

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: christian.jung@med.uni-duesseldorf.de

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

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