John, Ulrich http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0587-5298
Rumpf, Hans-Jürgen http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6848-920X
Hanke, Monika http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9384-8331
Meyer, Christian http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4722-7109
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (: 01 EB 9406)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (JO 150/11-1)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (ME 3180/4-1, RU 1570/3-1)
Universitätsmedizin Greifswald
Article History
Accepted: 6 January 2023
First Online: 19 January 2023
Declarations
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: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. No approval of an institutional review board was needed in the years when the baseline part of the study had been conducted. The mortality follow-up part of the study had been approved by the ethics committee of the University Medicine Greifswald (BB 044/13).
: Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.
: All authors declare no competing interests.