Güder, Gülmisal
Wilkesmann, Joana
Scholz, Nina
Leppich, Robert
Düking, Peter
Sperlich, Billy
Rost, Christian
Frantz, Stefan
Morbach, Caroline
Sahiti, Floran
Stefenelli, Ulrich
Breunig, Margret
Störk, Stefan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1771-7249
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (01EO1504)
Universitätsklinikum Würzburg
Article History
Received: 29 May 2021
Accepted: 7 June 2021
First Online: 22 June 2021
Declarations
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: GG received grant support from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, The German Heart Foundation, the German Society for Cardiology and has been a consultant for AstraZeneca, Abiomed, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis, Orion GmbH, Pfizer and Vifor, all outside of the current study. BS received funding for a previous exercise study from Polar. CM reports research cooperation with the University of Würzburg and Tomtec Imaging Systems funded by a research grant from the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, Germany; advisory and speakers honoraria as well as travel grants from AKCEA, Alnylam, Amgen, Boehringer Ingelheim, EBR Systems Orion Pharma, Pfizer, SOBI, and Tomtec; principal investigator in trials sponsored by Alnylam and AstraZeneca; financial support from the interdisciplinary center for clinical research - IZKF Würzburg, all outside this current study. SF received grant support from the German Research Foundation, the BMBF and has been a consultant for Abiomed, Amgen, Akzea, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Berlin-Chemie, Biotronik, Braun, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Boehringer, Daiichi Sankyo, Medtronic, MSD, Novartis, Novonordisk, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, Servier, Siemens, Vifor, and Zoll - all outside of the current study. SS received grant support from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, The German Heart Foundation, the German Society for Cardiology and has participated in trials conducted by or has been a consultant for Akcea, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, IONIS, Novartis, Pfizer, Sanofi, Vifor, all outside of the current study. All other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.
: The study was approved by the responsible ethic committee of Würzburg, Germany (221/18-sc).
: All patients were adults and provided written informed consent to participate to the study.
: Written informed consent for publication of their clinical data was obtained from all patients before study inclusion.