Cardoso, Elsa M.
Esgalhado, André J.
Patrão, Luís
Santos, Mónica
Neves, Vasco Pinto
Martinez, Jorge
Patto, Maria Assunção Vaz
Silva, Helena
Arosa, Fernando A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
European Regional Development Fund (Project No. 007491, Project CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-000013)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Project UID/Multi /00709)
Article History
Received: 3 December 2017
Accepted: 5 April 2018
First Online: 22 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
: The Ethic Committees of the three Hospitals approved the study and each subject gave written informed consent prior to enrolment in the study according to the Declaration of Helsinki. 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 2008.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.