About the Authors

Pavel Strnad

Hasan.Kulaksiz@spital-waldshut.de (HK); pstrnad@ukaachen.de (PS)

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Department of Internal Medicine III and IZKF, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Guido von Figura

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Regina Gruss

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Katja-Marlen Jareis

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Adolf Stiehl

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Division of Gastroenterology, University Medical Centre Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Hasan Kulaksiz

Hasan.Kulaksiz@spital-waldshut.de (HK); pstrnad@ukaachen.de (PS)

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Department of Internal Medicine II, Hospital Waldshut-Tiengen, Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Study supervision: PS HK. Obtained funding: PS HK. Conceived and designed the experiments: PS GVF HK. Performed the experiments: KJ RG. Analyzed the data: PS GVF AS HK. Wrote the paper: PS GVF HK.