Mireen Friedrich-Rust:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0937-3076
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Fabian Schoelzel: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: Writing – original
draft
Sebastian Maier: Role: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – original draft
Florian Seeger: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Julia Rey: Role: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Stephan Fichtlscherer: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: Writing
– review & editing
Eva Herrmann: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: MethodologyRole: SoftwareRole: ValidationRole:
Writing – review & editing
Stefan Zeuzem: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: Project administrationRole:
ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Joerg Bojunga: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Pavel Strnad: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
26
October
2017
Publication date Collection: 2017
Volume: 12
Issue: 10
Electronic Location Identifier: e0186720
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Internal Medicine 1, Hospital of the Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
[2
]
Department of Internal Medicine 3, Hospital of the Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
[3
]
Department of Medicine, Institute of Biostatistics and Mathematical Modelling, Goethe
University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
[4
]
German Center for Cardiovascular Research, DZHK, partner site Frankfurt Rhine-Main,
Berlin, Germany
Medizinische Fakultat der RWTH Aachen, GERMANY
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors declare the following interest: the authors are affiliated with the commercial
company, Echosens, only in so far as this company provided material support for this
study. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare.
This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data
and materials.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-17-24088
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186720
PMC ID: 5658076
PubMed ID: 29073252
SO-VID: b66b11b1-5352-4946-8ca8-5341ba46d8bb
Copyright © © 2017 Friedrich-Rust et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
The commercial company, Echosens, provided material support by lending the FibroScan®
M-probe used in this study to the authors (
http://www.echosens.us/). The funders did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection
and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Vascular Medicine
Subject:
Coronary Heart Disease
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Cardiology
Subject:
Coronary Heart Disease
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Developmental Biology
Subject:
Fibrosis
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Subject:
Anatomical Pathology
Subject:
Cytopathology
Subject:
Steatosis
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Subject:
Liver Diseases
Subject:
Fatty Liver
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Subject:
Liver Diseases
Subject:
Liver Fibrosis
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Cardiovascular Medicine
Subject:
Cardiovascular Imaging
Subject:
Angiography
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Diagnostic Medicine
Subject:
Diagnostic Radiology
Subject:
Cardiovascular Imaging
Subject:
Angiography
Subject:
Research and Analysis Methods
Subject:
Imaging Techniques
Subject:
Diagnostic Radiology
Subject:
Cardiovascular Imaging
Subject:
Angiography
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Radiology and Imaging
Subject:
Diagnostic Radiology
Subject:
Cardiovascular Imaging
Subject:
Angiography
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Metabolic Disorders
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Diagnostic Medicine
Subject:
Diagnostic Radiology
Subject:
Ultrasound Imaging
Subject:
Research and Analysis Methods
Subject:
Imaging Techniques
Subject:
Diagnostic Radiology
Subject:
Ultrasound Imaging
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Radiology and Imaging
Subject:
Diagnostic Radiology
Subject:
Ultrasound Imaging
