Berlier, Charlotte
Schwarz, Esther I.
Saxer, Stéphanie
Lichtblau, Mona
Ulrich, Silvia
Article History
Received: 25 September 2018
Accepted: 25 March 2019
First Online: 8 April 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: None of the authors declares any conflict of interest in relation to the present work. SU received grant money from the Swiss National Science Foundation, Zurich Lung, Actelion SA, Bayer SA, Orpha Swiss. SU; EIS, SS, ML and CB received travel support and lecture fees from Actelion SA, Bayer SA, MSD SA and Orpha Swiss.
: 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. This retrospective cohort study complied with the ethical laws in Switzerland and all patients have signed informed consent for the Zurich PH cohort study (KEK 2014-0214).