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Fox, Henrik https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-8715
Hetzenecker, Andrea
Stadler, Stefan
Oldenburg, Olaf
Hamer, Okka W.
Zeman, Florian
Bruch, Leonhard
Seidel, Mirko
Buchner, Stefan
Arzt, Michael
Funding for this research was provided by:
ResMed
Article History
Received: 4 September 2019
Accepted: 18 January 2020
First Online: 31 January 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: As this study studies involves human participants and will report human data, we have ethics approval from Ethikkommission der Universität Regensburg, approval number: 11–101-0229 and this study is being conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Central ethical approval has been obtained from Ethikkommission der Universität Regensburg and this study did not begin recruiting at other centres in this trial until local ethical approval had been obtained. We confirm that informed consent will be obtained from all study participants in this trial.
: Not applicable. This manuscript does not contain any individual person’s data in any form, as this is a study design manuscript.
: HF, OH, SS, OO, AH, FZ and SB have no competing interests to declare in regard to this study. MA received grant support from the ResMed Foundation (La Jolla, CA, USA). MA has also received grant support from ResMed (Martinsried, Germany), Philips Respironics (Murrysville, PA, USA).