Brief report – Telomere length is a poor biomarker to predict 1-year mortality or cardiovascular comorbidity in patients with transcatheter aortic valve replacement

• Martin Steinmetz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Martin Steinmetz, Charlotte Schmitter

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: martin.steinmetz@uk-essen.de

  ¶‡ MN and CS are first authors on this work. MV-N and J-MS also contributed equally to this work. MV-N and J-MS are last authors on this work.

  Affiliations Universitätsklinikum Essen, Klinik für Kardiologie und Angiologie, Essen, Germany, Universitätsklinkum Bonn, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik II, Bonn, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5452-6687

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• Charlotte Schmitter ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Martin Steinmetz, Charlotte Schmitter

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ MN and CS are first authors on this work. MV-N and J-MS also contributed equally to this work. MV-N and J-MS are last authors on this work.

  Affiliation Universitätsklinkum Bonn, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik II, Bonn, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8666-3862

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• Tobias Radecke,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Universitätsklinikum Essen, Klinik für Kardiologie und Angiologie, Essen, Germany

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• Anja Stundl,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Universitätsklinkum Bonn, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik II, Bonn, Germany

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• Georg Nickenig,

  Roles Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Universitätsklinkum Bonn, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik II, Bonn, Germany

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• Christian Schaefer,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Universitätsklinkum Bonn, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik II, Bonn, Germany

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• Nadjib Schahab,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Universitätsklinkum Bonn, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik II, Bonn, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0579-9435

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• Mariuca Vasa-Nicotera ,

  Roles Conceptualization

  ¶‡ MN and CS are first authors on this work. MV-N and J-MS also contributed equally to this work. MV-N and J-MS are last authors on this work.

  Affiliations Universitätsklinkum Bonn, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik II, Bonn, Germany, Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt, Klinik für Kardiologie, Frankfurt, Germany

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• Jan-Malte Sinning

  Roles Conceptualization

  ¶‡ MN and CS are first authors on this work. MV-N and J-MS also contributed equally to this work. MV-N and J-MS are last authors on this work.

  Affiliation Universitätsklinkum Bonn, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik II, Bonn, Germany

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