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Article History

Accepted: 13 April 2025

First Online: 6 May 2025

Declarations

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: R. Birk has received research grants, reimbursement for travel expenses, and speaker fees from Neuwirth Medical Products, Philips Healthcare, and Itamar Medical. B.A. Stuck has received research grants, reimbursement of travel expenses, and speaking fees from Neuwirth Medical Products, XM Consult, Inspire Medical, UV-smart, Itamar, Sanofi, Merck, and Nyxoah. His department has received financial support for meetings or symposia from Advanced Bionics, ALK, Atos, Bess, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cochlear, Fahl, Inspire, Löwenstein Medical, Medel, Merck, MSD, Neuwirth Medical Products, Novartis, Oticon, Otopront, Pohl-Boskamp, Sanofi, Spiggle &Theis, Storz, Takeda, Zeiss, Bioprojet, and Fresenius Kabi. He serves as a consultant for Itamar Medical and UV smart. H. Li, C. Viniol, and W. Cassel declare that they have no competing interests.

: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the University of Marburg. and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Approval for the study was granted by the ethics committee of the Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany (study number 79/20). Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.