Ullrich, Antje
Voigt, Lisa
Baumann, Sophie
Weymar, Franziska
John, Ulrich
Dörr, Marcus
Ulbricht, Sabina
Funding for this research was provided by:
Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, DZHK (81/Z540100152)
Article History
Received: 11 September 2017
Accepted: 23 February 2018
First Online: 6 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.This study was approved by the clinical ethical committee of the University Medicine Greifswald, Germany (protocol number BB 002/15a) and retrospectively registered to the ExternalRef removed Protocol Registration and Results System (Clinical trial registration number: NCT02990039). Informed written consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
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