Arnold, Natalie
Gori, Tommaso
Schnabel, Renate B.
Schulz, Andreas
Prochaska, Jürgen H.
Zeller, Tanja
Binder, Harald
Pfeiffer, Norbert
Beutel, Manfred
Espinola-Klein, Christine
Lackner, Karl J.
Blankenberg, Stefan
Münzel, Thomas
Wild, Philipp S.
Article History
Received: 17 February 2017
Accepted: 9 June 2017
First Online: 24 July 2017
Competing Interests
: This work was supported by the government of Rhineland-Palatinate (“Stiftung Rheinland-Pfalz für Innovation”, contract AZ 961-386261/733), the research programs “Wissen schafft Zukunft” and “Center for Translational Vascular Biology (CTVB)” of the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, and its contract with Boehringer Ingelheim and PHILIPS Medical Systems, including an unrestricted grant for the Gutenberg Health Study. P.S.W. is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF 01EO1503). T.Z., S.B., T.M. and P.S.W. are PIs of the German Center for Cardiovascular Research. RBS is funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) Emmy Noether Program SCHN 1149/3-1. The funders played no role with regard to design and conduct of the study, data collection, study management, analysis and interpretation of the data, preparation, review or approval of the manuscript, and decision for publication. The other authors declare no competing financial interests.