Inge Kirchberger, PhD Senior Researcher, Central Hospital of Augsburg, MONICA/KORA Myocardial Infarction Registry, Augsburg, and Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Institute of Epidemiology II, Neuherberg, Germany.
Ute Amann, PhD Senior Researcher, Central Hospital of Augsburg, MONICA/KORA Myocardial Infarction Registry, Augsburg, and Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Institute of Epidemiology II, Neuherberg, Germany.
Margit Heier, MD Head, Central Hospital of Augsburg, MONICA/KORA Myocardial Infarction Registry, Augsburg, and Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Institute of Epidemiology II, Neuherberg, Germany.
Christian Thilo, MD Senior Physician, Central Hospital of Augsburg, Department of Internal Medicine I–Cardiology, Augsburg, Germany.
Annette Peters, PhD Head, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Institute of Epidemiology II, Neuherberg, Germany.
Christa Meisinger, MD Head, Central Hospital of Augsburg, MONICA/KORA Myocardial Infarction Registry, Augsburg, and Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Institute of Epidemiology II, Neuherberg, Germany.
The KORA research platform and the MONICA Augsburg studies were initiated and financed by the Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology and by the State of Bavaria. Since the year 2000, the myocardial infarction data collection is co-financed by the German Federal Ministry of Health to provide population-based myocardial infarction morbidity data for the official German Health Report (see www.gbe-bund.de). Steering partners of the MONICA/KORA Infarction Registry, Augsburg, are the KORA research platform, Helmholtz Zentrum München, and the I. Medizinische Klinik, Herzzentrum Augsburg-Schwaben, Klinikum Augsburg.
The authors have no funding or conflicts of interest to disclose.
Correspondence Inge Kirchberger, PhD, MONICA/KORA Myocardial Infarction Registry, Central Hospital of Augsburg, Stenglinstr. 2, D-86156 Augsburg, Germany ([email protected]).
