Caputo, Mahrrouz
Horn, Johannes
Karch, André
Akmatov, Manas K.
Becher, Heiko
Braun, Bettina
Brenner, Hermann
Castell, Stefanie
Fischer, Beate
Giani, Guido
Günther, Kathrin
Hoffmann, Barbara
Jöckel, Karl-Heinz
Keil, Thomas
Klüppelholz, Birgit
Krist, Lilian
Leitzmann, Michael F.
Lieb, Wolfgang
Linseisen, Jakob
Meisinger, Christa
Moebus, Susanne
Obi, Nadia
Pischon, Tobias
Schipf, Sabine
Schmidt, Börge
Sievers, Claudia
Steinbrecher, Astrid
Völzke, Henry
Mikolajczyk, Rafael
Article History
Received: 23 August 2017
Accepted: 8 January 2019
First Online: 30 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All studies on humans described in the present manuscript were carried out in accordance with national law and the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 (in its current, revised form). The pretest studies were approved by the responsible ethics committee of the German Federal States of each of the 18 study centers (such as for Augsburg: Ethics Committee of the State Board of Physicians of the German federal state of Bavaria; Bremen: Ethics Committee of the University of Bremen; Essen: Ethics Committee of the University Clinics of Essen; Hannover: Ethics Committee of the State Board of Physicians of the German federal state of Lower Saxony; Hamburg: Ethics Committee of the State Board of Physicians of the federal state of Hamburg; and Heidelberg: Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg). Written informed consent was obtained from all participants included in the studies.
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