Khan, Nazia
Lambert-Messerlian, Geralyn
Monteiro, Joao Filipe
Hodosy, Julius
Tóthová, Ľubomíra
Celec, Peter
Eklund, Elizabeth
Curran, Patrizia
Bourjeily, Ghada http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0543-4719
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (T35HL094308)
Article History
Received: 28 June 2016
Revised: 17 January 2017
Accepted: 1 February 2017
First Online: 24 February 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest (such as honoraria, educational grants, participation in speakers’ bureaus, membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership or other equity interest, and expert testimony or patent-licensing arrangements) or nonfinancial interest (such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge, or beliefs) in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript. GB received research equipment support from Respironics for a federally funded study; however, Respironics had no role in the current study.
: 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. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants prospectively recruited into the study. Waiver of consent was obtained for the retrospective component of the study. Both were IRB approved.
: GB received funding from NIH R01HL130702 and R01HD078515 and Perkins Charitable Foundation. The Perkins Foundation had no role in study design, conduct, interpretation, or submission of the manuscript.