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Received: 17 November 2017

Accepted: 14 March 2018

First Online: 23 March 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The ethics committee of Lower Saxony in Hannover was consulted but approval and/or trial registration was not required because statutory health insurances Deutsche BKK and Audi BKK use the pilot project as their routine screening program. Participants need to give written consent to be included in WOLPHSCREEN. The written consent includes an agreement that pseudonymized data and left-over material may be used for research.

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