Jungmann, Pia M. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2198-3678
Gersing, Alexandra S.
Baumann, Frederic
Holwein, Christian
Braun, Sepp
Neumann, Jan
Zarnowski, Julia
Hofmann, Felix C.
Imhoff, Andreas B.
Rummeny, Ernst J.
Link, Thomas M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (N01-AR-2-2258, N01-AR-2-2259, N01-AR-2-2260, N01-AR-2-2261, N01-AR-2-2262)
B. Braun-Stiftung (BBST-D-17-00070R1)
Article History
Received: 15 March 2018
Accepted: 4 December 2018
First Online: 12 December 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: No conflict of interest for any of the authors.
: The study was approved by the local Institutional Review Boards (Ethikkommission Technical University of Munich). The OAI study protocol, amendments, and informed consent documentation including analysis plans were reviewed and approved by the local institutional review boards. Data used in the preparation of this manuscript were obtained from the OAI database, which is available for public access at ExternalRef removed. The procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000.
: All subjects gave written informed consent prior to participation in the study.