Acknowledgements
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We gratefully acknowledge the expert technical assistance of Dorothea Bader-Schmieder, Ingrid Fleischmann, Kerstin Fröhlich-Endress, Ulrike Heinritz, Wiebke Maurer and Simone Pejkovic (Clinical Research Centre, Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany). The present work was performed in fulfilment of the requirements for obtaining the degree Dr. med. for L.N.