Lee, Arthur M.
Fermin, Cyrelle R.
Filipp, Stephanie L.
Gurka, Matthew J.
DeBoer, Mark D.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (1R01HL120960)
Article History
Received: 26 October 2016
Accepted: 20 December 2016
First Online: 9 January 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: None.
: This study was approved by the ethics review board of the National Center for Health Statistics, and all participants provided their informed consent in writing.
: 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.
: Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.