Moschetti, Viktoria
Schlecker, Christina
Wind, Sven
Goetz, Sophia
Schmitt, Holger
Schultz, Armin
Liesenfeld, Karl-Heinz
Wunderlich, Glen
Desch, Michael
Funding for this research was provided by:
Boehringer Ingelheim
Article History
First Online: 30 May 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The work presented here, including the conduct of the study, data analysis and interpretation, was funded by Boehringer Ingelheim. The sponsor was given the opportunity to review the manuscript for medical and scientific accuracy as well as intellectual property considerations. Editorial support in the form of initial preparation of the outline based on input from all authors, and collation and incorporation of author feedback to develop subsequent drafts, assembling tables and figures, copy editing and referencing was provided by Louisa Pettinger, PhD, and Sam Halliwell, PhD, of Fishawack Communications, and was funded by Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH.
: The authors met the criteria for authorship as recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. All authors (except Armin Schultz, who is an employee of CRS Clinical Research Services, Mannheim) are employees of Boehringer Ingelheim, but received no direct compensation related to the development of this manuscript. Armin Schultz has no disclosures to declare.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee 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.