Fawad, Ayesha https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7918-5217
Fernandez, Celine
Bergmann, Andreas
Struck, Joachim
Nilsson, Peter M.
Bennet, Louise
Orho-Melander, Marju
Melander, Olle
Funding for this research was provided by:
Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
Göran Gustafssons Stiftelse för Naturvetenskaplig och Medicinsk Forskning
swedish heart and lung Foundation
Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas
Region Skåne
Skånes universitetssjukhus
Article History
Received: 28 March 2020
Accepted: 5 August 2020
First Online: 21 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The investigation confirms to the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki []. The Ethics Committee at Lund University approved the study and all participants have provided written informed consent to participate.
: The data does not include any individual personal data including individual details, images or videos and hence consent for publication is not applicable in this study.
: JS is employed by Sphingotec GmbH, a company having patent rights in the proneurotensin assay and commercializing it. AB is CEO of Sphingotec GmbH and holds shares in this company. The other authors declare that they have neither disclosures nor financial or non-financial competing interests.