Schmidt, Burkhard
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Herr, Raphael M.
Jarczok, Marc N.
Baumert, Jens
Lukaschek, Karoline
Emeny, Rebecca T.
Ladwig, Karl-Heinz
Article History
Received: 1 August 2017
Accepted: 18 April 2018
First Online: 23 April 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors of this study 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. For the MONICA/KORA studies approval was sought from the Bavarian commissioner for data protection and privacy (Bayerischer Datenschutzbeauftragter) for the baseline data in S3 and the Ethics Committee of the Bavarian Medical Association (Bayerische Landesärztekammer) for the follow-up data in F3.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.