Ansuategui Echeita, Jone
Bethge, Matthias
van Holland, Berry J.
Gross, Douglas P.
Kool, Jan
Oesch, Peter
Trippolini, Maurizio A.
Chapman, Elizabeth
Cheng, Andy S. K.
Sellars, Robert
Spavins, Megan
Streibelt, Marco
van der Wurff, Peter
Reneman, Michiel F.
Article History
First Online: 25 May 2018
Change Date: 26 June 2018
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake in the Table 2. The data under column head “Left handgrip strength (n = 336)” was erroneously omitted during the production process. The corrected Table 2 is given below.
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Formal ethical approval to perform the study was obtained from the University of Alberta’s Health Research Ethics Board, Alberta (Canada); the Queen’s University Health Sciences & Affiliated Teaching Hospitals Research Ethics Board, Ontario (Canada); the Ethical Committee of St. Gallen (Switzerland); the Ethical Committee of the University of Lübeck (Germany); the Faculty of Health Sciences Research Ethics Committee of the University of Pretoria (South Africa); the Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of Newcastle (Australia); and the New Territories West Cluster Clinical and Research Ethics Committee (Hong Kong, China); the Physiotherapy Associates Institutional Review Board (United States of America). Because the study was performed within care as usual, a formal ethical approval was not required for the University Medical Center Groningen (The Netherlands); the Ethical Committee of Niederösterreich (Austria); and the ACC Research Ethics Committee (New Zealand).
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible research committees on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2014 [CitationRef removed]. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.