About the Authors
- Heike Spaderna
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: spaderna@uni-trier.de
Affiliation Department of Nursing Science, Health Psychology, Trier University, Trier, Germany
- Vincent M. Brandenburg
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Rhein-Maas-Klinikum, Würselen, Germany
- Michael Lauterbach
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Heart Center Trier, Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brueder, Trier, Germany
- Tara M. Partetzke
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Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Nursing Science, Health Psychology, Trier University, Trier, Germany, Graduates’ Center, Trier University, Trier, Germany
- Sandra U. Schwab
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Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Nursing Science, Health Psychology, Trier University, Trier, Germany
- Frederik Voss
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Electrophysiology, Heart Center Trier, Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brueder, Trier, Germany
- Ingrid Kindermann
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital, Saarland University, Homburg Saar, Germany
Competing Interests
HS reports grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Trier University during the conduct of the study. VB reports no conflict of interest with regard to the present study. FV, ML, TMP, SUS report no conflict of interest with regard to the present study. IK reports grants from Friede Springer Stiftung, German Heart Foundation/German Foundation of Heart Research, and from the German Research Foundation (DFG), and personal fees from Akcea Therapeutics Germany GmbH, AstraZeneca, Alnylam, Bayer Vital GmbH, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers-Squibb Company, Daiichi Sankyo Deutschland, Hexal AG, Novartis, Pfizer Pharma GmbH, Servier Deutschland GmbH, and Vifor. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The data is stored at a public repository https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12664734 with restricted access. Data cannot be shared publicly because patients’ written consent did not include this option. Reasonable requests for access to the data can be addressed to fret@uni-trier.de.