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Article History

Received: 2 May 2022

Accepted: 16 December 2022

First Online: 9 January 2023

Change Date: 13 February 2023

Change Type: Update

Change Details: This article has been corrected since original publication; please see the linked erratum for futher details.

Change Date: 1 March 2023

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:

Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12872-023-03107-z

Declarations

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: The local ethics review committees of all the centres approved the study, and informed consent was obtained from all patients. The study complies with the Declaration of Helsinki, and data were collected prospectively. The ethics review committees that approved the study were the following: Ethik-Kommission -Med. Fak. Bonn, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany; Ethik-Kommission bei der Medizinischen Fakultät, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; Ethik-Kommission, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Ethik-Kommission der Ärztekammer Westfalen-Lippe und der Medizinischen Fakultät der Westfälischen Wilhelms Universität, Münster, Germany; Sächsiche Landesärztekammer, Dresden, Germany; Ärztekammer Nordrhein, Düsseldorf, Germany; Ethik-Kommission der Ärztekammer Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Ethikkommission der Med. Fak. Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; Ethik-Kommission der Landesärztekammer Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz, Germany; Ethik-Kommission der Bayerischen Landesärztekammer, München, Germany; Landesärztekammer Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; Ethik-Kommission OLVG, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Ethik-Kommission Arrixaca, El Palmar (Murcia), Spain; Pharma-ethics, Lyttelton, Zuid Africa; Ethikkommission des Landes Oberösterreich, Linz, Austria.

: Not applicable.

: AM reports consulting, travel and lecturer fees from Cardiofocus and Medtronic, outside the submitted work. FS reports speaker fees from Medtronic, Astra Zeneca, Bristol-Myers-Squibb outside the submitted work, and educational support from Pfizer. RT reports research grant from Abbott and Medtronic, and speaker bureau for Abbott, Boston Scientific, Biosense Webster and Medtronic, outside the submitted work. MK reports speaker fees from Abbott and Medtronic; proctoring, consultancy and advisory board services for Medtronic, outside the submitted work. JT reports lecture honoraria from Medtronic. PLC is employed by Medtronic. RH is employed by and stockholder of Medtronic. MH and JS report that their employer, Stiftung IHF, received financial support from Medtronic for the conduct of the FREEZE Cohort study and for statistical analyses of the present work. EH reports that her department received compensation for participation in clinical research trials outside the submitted work, from Abbott, Bayer, Biotronik, Boehringer Ingelheim, Edwards, Elixier, Medtronic and Stentys. KHK reports grants and personal fees from Biosense Webster, Medtronic, Abbott Vascular and Impulse Dynamics outside the submitted work. GN, DA, HW, CS, JF and UD report no involvement that might raise the question of bias in the work reported or in the conclusions, implications, or opinions stated.

: Informed consent was obtained from all patients in the FREEZE Cohort study.