Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Essen
Article History
Received: 16 June 2023
Revised: 18 July 2023
Accepted: 21 July 2023
First Online: 5 August 2023
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee of the University Duisburg-Essen and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: M.B. received personal fees from Onera Health (The Netherlands), a company active in sleep medicine, but unrelated to the research topic of this study. M.W. received consulting fees from SI-BONE (United States) a company unrelated to the research topic of this study and personal fees from Inspire Medical Systems (United States). C.S. received personal fees from ResMed (Australia). J.S. received personal fees from Inspire Medical Systems (United States) and from Neuwirth Medical Products (Germany), research grants from Sutter Medizintechnik (Germany), Löwenstein Medical (Germany), Nyxoah (Belgium) and Inspire Medical Systems (United States). C.H. was a consultant for Inspire Medical Systems (United States), received personal fees from Neuwirth Medical Products (Germany), and research grants from Sutter Medizintechnik (Germany), Löwenstein Medical (Germany), Nyxoah (Belgium), and Inspire Medical Systems (United States).