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Article History

Received: 16 August 2019

Accepted: 31 October 2019

First Online: 8 November 2019

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: Ghazal Aarabi: Has received project related funding by the DFG. Gerhard Adam: Nothing to disclose. Sven Anders: received research funding from German Ministry of Science and Education (BMBF) and Rickertsen Foundation. Matthias Augustin: Nothing to disclose. Ramona Bei der Kellen: Nothing to disclose. Thomas Beikler: Nothing to disclose. Christian-Alexander Behrendt: has received research funding from the German Federal Joint Committee (Grant No. 01VSF16008 and 01VSF18035). Christian S. Betz: Nothing to disclose relating to HCHS. Carsten Bokemeyer: Nothing to disclose. Katrin Borof: Nothing to disclose. Peer Briken: Nothing to disclose. Chia-Jung Busch: Has received project related funding by the DKFZ. Christian Büchel: Nothing to disclose. Stefanie Brassen: Nothing to disclose. Sebastian Debus received institutional Grants from COOK, Vascutek and Bayer. He has also received honoraria as member of Bayer Advisory boards. Larissa Eggers: Nothing to disclose. Jens Fiehler: received research funding from German Ministry of Science and Education (BMBF), German Ministry of Economy and Innovation (BMWi), German Research Foundation (DFG), European Union (EU), Hamburgische Investitions- und Förderbank (IFB), Medtronic, Microvention, Philips, Stryker; received honoraria as consultant or speaker for Acandis, Boehringer Ingelheim, Cerenovus, Covidien, Evasc Neurovascular, MD Clinicals, Medtronic, Medina, Microvention, Penumbra, Route92, Stryker, Transverse Medical. Jürgen Gallinat: has received research funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, German Science Foundation, and speaker fees from Lundbeck, Janssen-Cilag, Lilly and Otsuka. Christian Gerloff: received funding from German Research Council (DFG), European Union, Federal Ministery of Education and Research (BMBF), German Statutory Pension Insurance Scheme (RV Nord), National Innovation Fond, Wegener Foundation, and Schilling Foundation; received honoraria as speaker or consultant from Abbott, Amgen, Bayer Vital, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Sanofi Aventis, and Prediction Biosciences. Evaldas Girdauskas: Nothing to disclose. Martin Gosau: Nothing to disclose. Uwe Koch- Gromus: Nothing to disclose. Markus Graefen: Nothing to disclose. Martin Härter: received funding from the Federal Ministery of Education and Research (BMBF) for the project PERGOLA. Volker Harth: received funding from European Union, Federal Ministery of Education and Research (BMBF), Federal Ministery of Health (BMG), and Deutsche Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung (DGUV). Christoph Heidemann: Nothing to disclose. Guido Heydecke: Nothing to disclose. Tobias Huber: Nothing to disclose relating to HCHS. Yassin Hussein: Nothing to disclose. Annika Jagodzinski: Has received project related funding by Amgen and an unrestricted Grant by Bayer. Christoffer Johansen: Nothing to disclose. Marvin O. Kampf: Nothing to disclose. Olaf von dem Knesebeck: Nothing to disclose. Alexander Konnopka: Nothing to disclose. Hans-Helmut König: Nothing to disclose. Robert Kromer: received funding from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, European Union, Santen and StullnPharma; received honoraria as speaker from Bayer, Novartis, Santen and Topcon. Christian Kubisch: Nothing to disclose. Simone Kühn: has been funded by the German Science Foundation, the European Union (ERC-2016-StG-Self-Control-677804) and a Fellowship from the Jacobs Foundation. Sonja Loges: Nothing to disclose with regards to this publication. Bernd Löwe: Nothing to disclose. Gunnar Lund: Nothing to disclose. Christian Meyer: is supported by the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK, 81Z0710112). Lina Nagel: Nothing to disclose Albert Nienhaus: Received funds from the German Ministry of Health (BMG), the European Union Social Dialog Fund, Institution for Statutory Accident Insurance and Prevention in the Health and Welfare Services, and ZEIT-Stiftung. Klaus Pantel: Nothing to disclose. Elina Petersen: Nothing to disclose. Klaus Püschel: Nothing to disclose. Hermann Reichenspurner: received honoraria as consultant for Abiomed und Medtronic. Guido Sauter: Nothing to disclose. Martin Scherer: Nothing to disclose. Katharina Scherschel: is supported by the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK, 81Z0710112). Ulrich Schiffner: has received honoraria for lectures from 3 M, CP Gaba, and DMG. Renate Schnabel: has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No 648131), German Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF 01ZX1408A) and German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK e.V.) (81Z1710103). Holger Schulz: Nothing to disclose. Ralf Smeets: Nothing to disclose. Vladislavs Sokalskis: Nothing to disclose. Martin S. Spitzer has received research funding from Novartis, Clanotech, Croma Pharma Topcon and Flouron. He received honoraria for lectures from Novartis, Bayer, Alcon, Allergan, Alimera Sciences and for consulting from Bayer, SHS and Altacor. Claudia Terschüren: received funding from Deutsche Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung (DGUV). Imke Thederan: Nothing to disclose. Götz Thomalla: received funding from the German Research Council (DFG), European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), Germany’s Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) Innovation Fund (Innovationsfonds), and has received honoraria as speaker or consultant from Acandis, Bayer Vital, Bristol-Myers-Squibb/Pfizer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Daiichi Sankyo and Stryker. Benjamin Waschki: Nothing to disclose. Karl Wegscheider: Nothing to disclose. Jan-Per Wenzel: Nothing to disclose. Susanne Wiese: Nothing to disclose. Birgit-Christiane Zyriax: has received project related funding by BASF, Unilever and DIFE. Tanja Zeller: is supported by the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK, 81Z0710102). This project has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 825903, the Innovative medicine initiative (IMI) under Grant No. 116074 and the Fondation Leducq under Grant Number 16 CVD 03. Stefan Blankenberg: is supported by the Innovative medicine initiative (IMI) under Grant No. 116074, the Fondation Leducq under Grant Number 16 CVD 03, Siemens, Bayer, Astra Zeneca, Deutsche Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung (DGUV) and Novartis for project related analyses.