Rossboth, Sophia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7965-946X
Rossboth, Benedikt
Schoenherr, Hans
Ciardi, Christian
Lechleitner, Monika
Oberaigner, Willi
Article History
Received: 3 November 2020
Accepted: 24 March 2021
First Online: 3 May 2021
Declarations
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: S. Rossboth, B. Rossboth, H. Schoenherr, C. Ciardi, M. Lechleitner and W. Oberaigner declare that they have no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants or on human tissue were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1975 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The Ethics Committee of the Medical University of Innsbruck approved the present study as part of the Diabetes Registry Tyrol. Due to the retrospective characteristics of the study, no ethics committee approval is required by Austrian law. This information was confirmed by the Ethics Committee of the Medical University of Innsbruck in a general statement. Procedures involving patients, patient data collection, and handling and storage of personal data are in accordance with national laws and the ethical standards of the seventh revision of the Declaration of Helsinki. In addition, the study was approved by the Research Committee for Scientific Ethical Questions at UMIT University. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.