Ashraf Yusuf Rangrez: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: Project administrationRole:
SupervisionRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Phillip Hoppe: Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: ValidationRole: Writing – original draft
Christian Kuhn: Role: Formal analysisRole: Methodology
Elisa Zille: Role: Formal analysisRole: Investigation
Johanne Frank: Role: ConceptualizationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Norbert Frey: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: Writing – review & editing
Derk Frank:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7561-075X
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: Project administrationRole:
ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Sudhiranjan Gupta: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
8
September
2017
Publication date Collection: 2017
Volume: 12
Issue: 9
Electronic Location Identifier: e0183901
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Internal Medicine III (Cardiology, Angiology, Intensive Care), University
Medical Center Kiel, Kiel, Germany
[2
]
DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Hamburg/Kiel/Lübeck,
Kiel, Germany
Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center, UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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PONE-D-17-14053
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183901
PMC ID: 5590826
PubMed ID: 28886070
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the original author and source are credited.
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft;
Award ID: FR2554-2
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7561-075X
Derk Frank
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002347, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung;
Award ID: eMed SYMBOL-HF
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7561-075X
Derk Frank
This work is funded by Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF; eMed SYM-BOL-HF,
to DF;
https://www.bmbf.de/en/), German Research Foundation (DFG; FR2554-2 to DF and NF;
www.dfg.de/en/), and support from German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK; AYR, NF and DF;
https://dzhk.de/en/). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision
to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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