Zhao, Zhiguo
Wickersham, Nancy
Kangelaris, Kirsten N.
May, Addison K.
Bernard, Gordon R.
Matthay, Michael A.
Calfee, Carolyn S.
Koyama, Tatsuki
Ware, Lorraine B.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (HL112656, 1K23HL116800-01, HL51856, HL110969, HL131621)
Article History
Received: 13 March 2017
Accepted: 25 May 2017
First Online: 7 June 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This study was supported by NIH HL112656 (LBW), 1K23HL116800-01 (KK), HL51856 (MAM), HL110969 and HL131621 (CSC), and the NHLBI BioLINCC/Biorepository.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study with the exception of some patients in the VALID study who were enrolled under an IRB-approved waiver of informed consent.