Boswijk, Ellen
Sanders, Karin J. C.
Broeders, Evie P. M.
de Ligt, Marlies
Vijgen, Guy H. E. J.
Havekes, Bas
Mingels, Alma M. A.
Wierts, Roel
van Marken Lichtenbelt, Wouter D.
Schrauwen, Patrick
Mottaghy, Felix M.
Wildberger, Joachim E.
Bucerius, Jan
Funding for this research was provided by:
Stichting De Weijerhorst (Cardiovasculaire Beeldvorming)
Article History
Received: 30 October 2018
Accepted: 13 February 2019
First Online: 11 March 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The local medical ethics committee (azM/UM) approved the study protocol of both original studies (METC 11-3-081 for the DTC patients and METC 13-3-058 for the euthyroid participants) and its additional analysis (METC 2018-0445). All study procedures 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.This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in this study.