El Hage, Naya
Jaar, Bernard G.
Cheng, Alan
Knight, Chloe
Blasco-Colmenares, Elena
Gimenez, Luis
Guallar, Eliseo
Shafi, Tariq http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7222-4666
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R03-DK-104012)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01-HL-132372-01)
Article History
Received: 21 March 2017
Accepted: 25 September 2017
First Online: 10 October 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the Johns Hopkins Medicine Institutional Review Board (IRB) with verbal consent (IRB00054481).
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: Dr. Alan Cheng is an employee of Medtronic, manufacturer of the LINQ device, but was not employed by Medtronic when the study was conducted. Medtronic or its employees had no involvement in study design, data collection or data analysis. Dr. Bernard Jaar is a Section Editor and Dr. Tariq Shafi is an Associate Editor for BMC Nephrology.
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