About the Authors

Ali Al Kaabi

Contributed equally to this work with: Ali Al Kaabi, Tobias Traupe

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Tobias Traupe

Contributed equally to this work with: Ali Al Kaabi, Tobias Traupe

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Monika Stutz

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Natasha Buchs

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Manfred Heller

manfred.heller@dkf.unibe.ch

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AAK TT MH. Performed the experiments: AAK MS NB. Analyzed the data: AAK TT MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH. Wrote the paper: AAK TT MH.