Albanese, Marco http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3103-6228
Alpaslan, Korhan
Ouarrak, Taoufik
Merguet, Peter
Schneider, Steffen
Schöls, Wolfgang
Funding for this research was provided by:
GlaxoSmithKline (Grant to German Cardiac Society)
Article History
Received: 20 September 2017
Accepted: 31 May 2018
First Online: 14 June 2018
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: Our study involved human participants and their data. The investigation was approved by the local hospital management. Our institution’s ethics committee declared that no ethics approval or consent was necessary (Ärztekammer Nordrhein, Germany; reference number 19–2013).
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