Gebhard, Catherine http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7240-5822
Fiechter, Michael
Herzog, Bernhard A.
Lohmann, Christine
Bengs, Susan
Treyer, Valerie
Messerli, Michael
Benz, Dominik C.
Giannopoulos, Andreas A.
Gräni, Christoph
Pazhenkottil, Aju P.
Buechel, Ronny R.
Kaufmann, Philipp A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Novartis Stiftung für Medizinisch-Biologische Forschung
OPO Foundation
Olga Mayenfisch Foundation
Schweizerische Herzstiftung
Article History
Received: 25 January 2018
Accepted: 2 May 2018
First Online: 19 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: None.
: Our study was approved by the Cantonal Ethics Board in Zurich, Switzerland (BASEC No. 2017–01112). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the principles of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards, and were conducted in accordance with institutional guidelines.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.