Ebner, Matthias
Kresoja, Karl-Patrik
Keller, Karsten
Hobohm, Lukas
Rogge, Nina I. J.
Hasenfuß, Gerd
Pieske, Burkert
Konstantinides, Stavros V.
Lankeit, Mareike http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5211-7997
Funding for this research was provided by:
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF 01EO1503)
Article History
Received: 20 January 2019
Accepted: 29 April 2019
First Online: 7 May 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: None of the authors reports a relationship with industry and other relevant entities—financial or otherwise—that might pose a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article. The following authors report financial activities outside the submitted work: Matthias Ebner reports no conflicts of interest. Karl-Patrik Kresoja reports having received lecture honoraria from Bristol-Myers Squibb. Karsten Keller reports no conflicts of interest. Lukas Hobohm reports having received lecture honoraria from MSD. Nina I.J. Rogge reports no conflicts of interest. Gerd Hasenfuß reports having received consultancy and lecture honoraria from AstraZeneca, Berlin Chemie, Corvia, Impulse Dynamics, Novartis, Servier and Vifor Pharma; and editor honoraria from Springer International Publishing AG. Burkert Pieske reports having received consultancy and lecture honoraria from Bayer, Daiichi Sankyo, MSD, Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis, Stealth Peptides and Vifor Pharma; and editor honoraria from the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Stavros V. Konstantinides reports having received consultancy and lecture honoraria from Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Daiichi-Sankyo, MSD and Pfizer–Bristol-Myers Squibb; and institutional grants from Actelion, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Daiichi-Sankyo and Pfizer–Bristol-Myers Squibb. Mareike Lankeit reports having received consultancy and lecture honoraria from Actelion, Bayer, Daiichi-Sankyo, MSD and Pfizer–Bristol-Myers Squibb.
: The study was conducted in accordance with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments and was approved by the local independent Ethic Committee of the Medical University Goettingen, Germany.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.