About the Authors

Alexander Michael Labeit

al247@le.ac.uk

Affiliations Clinical Pharmacology Mannheim, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Jens Klotsche

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and Center of Clinical Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Lars Pieper

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and Center of Clinical Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

David Pittrow

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and Center of Clinical Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Franziska Einsle

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and Center of Clinical Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Günter Karl Stalla

Affiliation Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Hendrik Lehnert

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Sigmund Silber

Affiliation Private Cardiology Practice and Clinic, Munich, Germany

Andreas Michael Zeiher

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Winfried März

Affiliations Synlab Academy, Synlab Services GmbH, Mannheim, Germany, Mannheim Institute of Public Health, Rupertus Carola University of Heidelberg, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany, Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Martin Wehling

Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology Mannheim, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Hans-Ulrich Wittchen

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and Center of Clinical Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: Alexander Michael Labeit, Jens Klotsche, Lars Pieper, David Pittrow, Franziska Einsle, Günter Karl Stalla, Hendrik Lehnert, Andreas Michael Zeiher, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen: none. Sigmund Silber: The author served as an advisor or consultant for Abbott Laboratories, Boston Scientific, Medtronic. Martin Wehling: The author was employed by AstraZeneca R&D, Mölndal, as director of discovery medicine (translational medicine) from 2003–2006, while on sabbatical leave from his professorship at the University of Heidelberg. After return to this position in January 2007, he receives lecturing and consulting fees from Sanofi-Aventis, Novartis, Takeda, Roche, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers, Daichii-Sankyo, Lilly and Novo-Nordisk. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Winfried März is affiliated with Synlab Academy, Synlab Services GmbH, Mannheim, Germany, though it has no bearing on this manuscript. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HL GS AZ WM DP SS MW. Performed the experiments: HL GS AZ WM DP SS MW. Analyzed the data: AL JK LP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AL JK LP. Wrote the paper: AL JK LP DP FE GS HL SS AZ WM MW HW.