Seiffert, Moritz
Brunner, Fabian J.
Remmel, Marko
Thomalla, Götz
Marschall, Ursula
L’Hoest, Helmut
Acar, Laura
Debus, Eike S.
Blankenberg, Stefan
Gerloff, Christian
Behrendt, Christian-Alexander http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0406-3319
Article History
Received: 24 June 2020
Accepted: 27 July 2020
First Online: 4 August 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Seiffert reports non-financial support from Abbott Vascular, personal fees from Abiomed, personal fees from AstraZeneca, personal fees from Bayer Healthcare, non-financial support from Biotronik, personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, personal fees and non-financial support from Boston Scientific, personal fees from Bristol-Myers Squibb, non-financial support from Edwards Lifesciences, non-financial support from Nicolai Medizintechnik, non-financial support from OrbusNeich Medical, grants and personal fees from Philips, and personal fees from Medtronic outside the submitted work. Dr. Brunner reports grant from the ASPIRE Cardiovascular grant award, Pfizer, outside the submitted work. Dr. Thomalla has received reports grant support and lecture fees from Bayer, personal fees from Acandis, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb/Pfizer, and Daiichi Sankyo, Portola, and Stryker outside the submitted work. Dr. Gerloff reports personal fees from Amgen, Bayer Vital, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Sanofi Aventis, Abbott, and Prediction Biosciences outside the submitted work. Dr. Behrendt and Dr. Debus report grants from the German Federal Joint Committee and grants from German Stifterverband outside the submitted work. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: Several review boards have determined that using anonymized data from claims or national statistics retrospectively is not human subject research because de-identified datasets were used.
: All analyses were following the European Union General Data Privacy Regulation (EU-GDPR), considering the theoretical concept of k-anonymity. Thus, patient informed consent was not obtained for this retrospective secondary data analysis [31].
: The data will be shared on reasonable request to the corresponding author.