Ivanovska, Tatyana
Jentschke, Thomas G.
Daboul, Amro
Hegenscheid, Katrin
Völzke, Henry
Wörgötter, Florentin
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (IV 161/4-1)
Article History
Received: 5 November 2018
Accepted: 27 February 2019
First Online: 6 March 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in the study. This study was a subproject of the population-based Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP). SHIP was conducted in the Northeast German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Written informed consent was obtained separately for study inclusion and MR imaging.
: 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 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The SHIP was conducted as approved by the local Institutional Review Board at Greifswald University Hospital.