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Article History

Received: 7 August 2017

Accepted: 8 December 2017

First Online: 18 January 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The study was conducted in France and Belgium in accordance with Good Clinical Practice (Declaration of Helsinki 2002) and Ethical Committee approvals (Comité de Protection des Personnes—Ile de France IV, IRB n°00003835 and Commission d’éthique biomédicale hospitalo-facultaire de l’hôpital de Louvain, IRB n°B403201213352).

: Not applicable

: EG received research grant from Sphingotec, and consultancy fees from Magnisense and Roche Diagnostics. AM received speaker’s honoraria from Abbott, Novartis, Orion, Roche and Servier, and fees as a member of the advisory board and/or Steering Committee from Cardiorentis, Adrenomed, MyCartis, Neurotronik and Sphyngotec. The remaining authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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