Maegele, Marc
Breidenbach, Lucas
Kaufmann, Janina
Keles, Yunus
Uhl, Eberhard
Schroeer, Peter
Funding for this research was provided by:
Private Universität Witten/Herdecke gGmbH
Article History
Received: 3 March 2026
Accepted: 7 June 2026
First Online: 24 June 2026
Declarations
: The study was appoved by the Ethics Committee of Witten/Herdecke University (S-180/2024) and conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. Since this involved a retrospective analysis of routinely collected data as part of a process implementation, no separate informed consent from patients was required. There was no funding to this work except for the reagants for the biomarker assays which were provided by Abbott Inc (USA).
: The authors declare no competing interests.