1. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology, Central Hospital of Augsburg, Germany
2. MONICA/KORA Myocardial Infarction Registry, Central Hospital of Augsburg, Germany
3. Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Envirionmental Health (GmbH), Germany
4. Department of Internal Medicine I - Cardiology, Central Hospital of Augsburg, Germany
5. Department for Internal Medicine/Cardiology, Donau-Ries-Kliniken, Germany