Conflict of interest
EDWARDS
The authors received a research grant from Bayer that was used together with the Funding of DZHK for conducting the study. S.D. Anker received grants and personal fees from Vifor and Abbott Vascular, and personal fees for consultancies, trial committee work and/or lectures from Actimed, Amgen, Astra Zeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bioventrix, Brahms, Cardiac Dimensions, Cardior, Cordio, CVRx, Cytokinetics, Edwards, Farraday Pharmaceuticals, GSK, HeartKinetics, Impulse Dynamics, Novartis, Occlutech, Pfizer, Repairon, Sensible Medical, Servier, Vectorious, and V-Wave. Named co-inventor of two patent applications regarding MR-proANP (DE 102007010834 and DE 102007022367), but he does not benefit personally from the related issued patents.