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Hartmann, Bettina
Lanzinger, Stefanie
van Mark, Gesine
Wosch, Frank Jürgen
Durmaz, Mesut
Plaumann, Maike
Sziegoleit, Stefan
Seufert, Jochen
Holl, Reinhard W.
Bramlage, Peter https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4970-2110
Funding for this research was provided by:
Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Sanofi Aventis
AstraZeneca
Bayer
Abbott
Article History
Received: 31 July 2019
Accepted: 17 August 2019
First Online: 30 August 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: JS reports grants and personal fees from Abbott, AstraZeneca and Sanofi, outside the submitted work. PB reports to have received consultancy honoraria from Sanofi and Abbott. BH, SL, GvM, FJW, MD, MP and SS have no competing interests to disclose.
: The registry was conducted in accordance with Good Epidemiology Practice and applicable regulatory requirements. The protocol of DIVE registry was approved by the ethics committee of the Medical School of Hannover (approval no. 6003), the protocol of DPV was approved by the ethics committee of the University of Ulm (approval no. 202/09), and data collection was approved by local review board.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: All patients being enrolled into this registry provided written informed consent.