Rauhala, Minna
Helén, Pauli
Seppä, Karri
Huhtala, Heini
Iverson, Grant L.
Niskakangas, Tero
Öhman, Juha
Luoto, Teemu M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Pirkanmaan Sairaanhoitopiiri
Maire Taposen Säätiö
Article History
Received: 9 January 2020
Accepted: 26 February 2020
First Online: 7 March 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Luoto has received funding from the Government’s Special Financial Transfer tied to academic research in Health Sciences (Finland), the Emil Aaltonen Foundation, and Finnish Medical SocietyDuodecim. Dr. Iverson acknowledges unrestricted philanthropic support from the Mooney-Reed Charitable Foundation, Heinz Family Foundation, ImPACT Applications, Inc., and Spaulding Research Institute. He serves as a strategic scientific advisor for BioDirection, Inc. The other authors report nothing to disclose.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee (the Ethics Committee of the Pirkanmaa Hospital District, approval code R12082) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All data was collected retrospectively without contacting the patients. For this type of study formal consent is not required.
: The sponsors had no role in the design or conduct of this research.