Härtig, Florian
Poli, Sven
Ebner, Matthias
Birschmann, Ingvild
Kuhn, Joachim
Ziemann, Ulf
Häring, Hans-Ulrich
Lehmann, Rainer
Peter, Andreas
Hörber, Sebastian http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5718-1530
Article History
First Online: 6 November 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: SP received speaker’s honoraria and consulting honoraria from Bayer, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb/Pfizer, Daiichi Sankyo and Werfen, reimbursement for congress traveling and accommodation from Bayer and Boehringer-Ingelheim, and research support from Bristol-Myers Squibb/Pfizer (significant), Boehringer-Ingelheim, Daiichi Sankyo (significant) and Helena Laboratories (all other contributions: modest). ME and FH received reimbursement for congress traveling and accommodation from Bayer (contributions: modest). IB received speaker’s honoraria from Aspen Germany GmbH, Bristol-Myers Squibb/Pfizer, Siemens Healthcare and CSL Behring and reimbursement for congress traveling and accommodation from Aspen and Bristol-Myers Squibb and performed contract research for Siemens Healthcare. IB is a member of the advisory board of LFB biomedicaments. UZ received personal fees from Biogen Idec GmbH, Bayer Vital GmbH, Bristol-Myers Squibb/Pfizer, CorTec GmbH, Medtronic GmbH, and grants from Biogen Idec GmbH, Servier, and Janssen Pharmaceuticals NV, outside of the submitted work (all contributions: modest). AP received speaker’s honoraria unrelated to the topic of this manuscript from Siemens Healthineers (modest) and research support unrelated to the topic of this manuscript from Siemens Healthineers (modest) and Boehringer-Ingelheim (significant). The remaining authors have disclosed that they do not have any conflicts of interest.
: Institutional review board approval was obtained from the ethics committee at the University Hospital Tübingen (Protocol Number 259/2013BO1 and 270/2015B01). All studies were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all participants at the beginning of the study.