Spiesshoefer, Jens http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8205-1749
Hegerfeld, Nora
Gerdes, Malte Frank
Klemm, Sören
Gorbachevski, Martha
Radke, Robert
Tuleta, Izabela
Passino, Claudio
Jiang, Xiaoyi
Sciarrone, Paolo
Randerath, Winfried
Dreher, Michael
Boentert, Matthias
Giannoni, Alberto
Funding for this research was provided by:
Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung (A 109)
Article History
Received: 3 January 2020
Revised: 8 June 2020
Accepted: 9 July 2020
First Online: 22 July 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The study protocol conforms to the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Institution’s human research committee (Ethikkommission der Ärztekammer Westfalen-Lippe und der Medizinischen Fakultät der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Az. 2017-188-f-S). All participants gave written informed consent to participate in the study.
: JS is supported by the Else-Kröner-Fresenius Stiftung (Grant SP A109) for this work, by Kommission für Innovative Medizinische Forschung an der Medizinischen Fakultät Muenster (IMF Grant SP 11 18 15), by Deutsche Herzstiftung (DHS Grant S/01/19), and by the young investigator research support from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa (Curriculum Ph.D. in Translational Medicine) and has received travel grants and lecture honoraria from Boehringer Ingelheim and Chiesi (all) outside the present work. MB is supported by Sanofi Genzyme outside this work and has received speaker honoraria and travel grants from Sanofi Genzyme and Loewenstein Medical. WR reports no conflicts of interest in context with the paper, but has received travel grants and speaking fees outside the submitted work from Loewenstein Medical, Weinmann, Philips Respironics, Novartis, Inspire<b>,</b> and Boehringer Ingelheim. MD reports to have received travel grants and/or speaking fees and/or fees for consulting from Actelion, Astra Zeneca, Bayer, Berlin Chemie, Boehringer, Chiesi, GSK, Hamilton, Heinen und Löwenstein, Intermune, Linde, Novartis, Pfizer, Philips Respironics, ResMed, Roche<b>,</b> and Weinmann outside the present work. NH, MFG, RR, IT, XJ, SK, PS<b>,</b> and CP declare no conflicts of interest in the context of this article.