Niederle, Martin B. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0450-6132
Foeger-Samwald, Ursula
Riss, Philipp
Selberherr, Andreas
Scheuba, Christian
Pietschmann, Peter
Niederle, Bruno
Kerschan-Schindl, Katharina
Funding for this research was provided by:
Oesterreichische Nationalbank (13245)
Article History
Received: 13 March 2019
Accepted: 16 August 2019
First Online: 26 August 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
: The study procedures of this double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial were approved by the Ethics Committee of the Medical University of Vienna (EKNr: 2142008), the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit), ExternalRef removed (identifier: NCT01222026), and European Union Drug Regulating Authorities Clinical Trials. All study participants gave written informed consent in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: PP has received research support and/or honoraria from Amgen GmbH, Biomedica GmbH, DePuySynthes, Fresenius Kabi Austria, Meda Pharma/Mylan GmbH, Shire Austria GmbH, TAmiRNA GmbH, and UCB Pharma. All authors have declared that no competing financial interests or other conflicts of interest exist.
: All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.