Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum RWTH Aachen
Article History
Received: 27 November 2024
Accepted: 17 February 2025
First Online: 14 March 2025
Declarations
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: The study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty of RWTH Aachen University (study number: EK 23–148 and EK 23–234, CTC number: 23–163).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants enrolled in this study with written informed consent from study participants supplemented with zinc.
: No data from an individual person is shown. All participants gave their consent to publish the data as patient cohort.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.