From the *Interdisciplinary Medical Intensive Care, Medical Center—University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany
†Department of Cardiology and Angiology I, Heart Center, University of Freiburg, Germany
‡Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center—University of Freiburg, Germany
§Center for Big Data Analysis in Cardiology (CeBAC), Heart Center Freiburg University, Department of Cardiology and Angiology I, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
¶First Department of Medicine (Cardiology), University Medical Centre Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, European Centre for AngioScience (ECAS), Mannheim, Germany
∥|Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Submitted for consideration February 2022; accepted for publication in revised form May 2022.
All authors have completed the ICMJE form (available upon request from the corresponding author). A.S. reports research grants and lecture fees from CytoSorbents and lecture fees from Abiomed, both outside the submitted work. D.D. reports lecture fees, a research grant, and travel support from CytoSorbents. P.S. reports lecture fees from Bayer, Berlin Chemie, and Edwards Life Science. All other co-authors have nothing to disclose.
This work was financed by internal funds from the University of Freiburg Medical Center. C.v.z.M. and D.D. are members of SFB1425, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)—Project #422681845. P.S. is funded by the the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)—Project #STA1446/6-1 and the Stiftung zur Erforschung von Zivilisationserkrankungen. The study was supported by the German Heart Foundation.
A.S., P.S., and K.K. designed the study. Data analysis was conducted by K.K. A.S., P.S., K.K., and A.H. wrote the first draft of the manuscript. All other authors revised the manuscript and added important content. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Correspondence: Alexander Supady, Medical Center—University of Freiburg, Interdisciplinary Medical Intensive Care, Hugstetter Strasse 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany. Email: [email protected]; Twitter: @AlexanderSupady.