Mensel, Birger http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2232-9283
Kühn, Jens-Peter
Kracht, Felix
Völzke, Henry
Lieb, Wolfgang
Dabers, Thomas
Lorbeer, Roberto
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (01ZZ9603)
Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur (01ZZ0103)
Social Ministry of the Federal State of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (01ZZ040)
Article History
First Online: 17 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: SHIP is part of the Community Medicine Research Net of the University of Greifswald, Germany, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (01ZZ9603, 01ZZ0103, 01ZZ0403, 01ZZ0701, 03ZIK012), the Ministry of Cultural Affairs as well as the Social Ministry of the Federal State of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. Whole-body MR imaging was supported by a joint grant from Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany, and the Federal State of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. The University of Greifswald is a member of the ‘Center of Knowledge Interchange’ program of Siemens AG. Contrast-enhanced MRI research is part of the entire whole-body MRI study and was supported by Bayer Healthcare. Furthermore, this work is part of the research project Greifswald Approach to Individualized Medicine (GANI_MED). The GANI_MED consortium is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and as well as by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs of the German Federal State of Mecklenburg—West Pomerania (03IS2061A). This study was further supported by the DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research).
: 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 each participant included in the study.