Siostrzonek, Peter http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4898-4606
Brath, Helmut http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1601-4656
Zweiker, Robert http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5407-9832
Drexel, Heinz http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4677-9756
Hoelzl, Robert http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7636-8002
Hemetsberger, Margit http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1877-6838
Ray, Kausik K. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0508-0954
Funding for this research was provided by:
amgen (europe) gmbh
Article History
Received: 5 July 2021
Accepted: 24 October 2021
First Online: 6 December 2021
Declarations
:
: P. Siostrzonek and H. Brath received speaker fees from Amgen. R. Zweiker received fees as a speaker, member of advisory boards or support for scientific projects by Amgen, Sanofi, Daiichi Sankyo, Novartis, Menarini, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, MEDahead, Austrian Medical Association, AstraZeneca. H. Drexel is national principal investigator of the ODYSSEY OUTCOMES trial (Sanofi), has received lecture fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, Sanofi, MSD, Amgen, Servier, Daiichi Sankyo, Novartis and is a member of the advisory boards of NovoNordisk, Boehringer Ingelheim, Sanofi, Amgen. R. Hoelzl is an employee of Amgen and owns Amgen shares. M. Hemetsberger has received consultancy fees from Amgen and holds Amgen stock. K.K. Ray reports grants from Amgen, during the conduct of the study; and personal fees from AbbVie, Aegerion, Akcea, Algorithm, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Cerenis, Cipla, Dr Reddys, Esperion, Kowa, Lilly, The Medicines Company, New Amsterdam, Novartis, Silence Therapeutics, Takeda, and Zuellig Pharma, and grants and personal fees from Amgen, Daiichi Sankyo, MSD, Pfizer, and Sanofi/Regeneron, outside the submitted work.
: The study protocol was approved by the institutional review board or independent ethics committee at each participating site (full protocol available online, ENCePP; registration no. EU PAS 22075). All enrolled persons gave their informed consent prior to inclusion in the study. This study was thus performed in accordance with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki.