Oettinger, Vera https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4460-2102
Hilgendorf, Ingo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0024-1643
Wolf, Dennis https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1525-4348
Rilinger, Jonathan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9333-3629
Maier, Alexander https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0200-7495
Zehender, Manfred
Westermann, Dirk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7542-1956
Kaier, Klaus https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0837-6945
von zur Mühlen, Constantin https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2767-8009
Funding for this research was provided by:
This work was supported by internal funding of the University Heart Center/Medical Center – University of Freiburg.
Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
Article History
Received: 17 July 2023
Accepted: 16 October 2023
First Online: 20 November 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: In our analysis, the investigators did not have a direct access to data from individual patients. They solely had access to summary results provided by the Research Data Centre. Therefore, according to German law, ethics committee approval and informed consent were not required. All pooled results have been anonymized by DESTATIS. This means that any information that could be used to identify an individual patient or a single center was censored by DESTATIS to ensure privacy. In addition, the data are checked and censored by DESTATIS to prevent any conclusions being drawn about an individual center.