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DECLARATIONS
Ethics approval and consent to participate
Medical Ethics Committees of the Slotervaart Hospital and Reade approved the protocol (P0120); patients gave written informed consent before inclusion, and the study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki/Good Clinical Practice.
Consent for publication
Not applicable.
Availability of data and material
The datasets used and analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Funding
This study was performed without funding.
Author’s contributions
MS saw the patients in the outpatient clinic and collected the data. ST, LR and MW analyzed the data. And DS, WL, LT, MW and ST contributed in interpreting the data and writing the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank all patients, as well as all doctors who enrolled patients in this study, and all research nurses who were involved in patient management.
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