Funding source: Greater Copenhagen Health Science Partners
Award Identifier / Grant number: Unassigned
Acknowledgments
This study was performed as part of the Clinical Academic Group (ACUTE-CAG) for Recovery Capacity nominated by the Greater Copenhagen Health Science Partners (GCHSP). We would like to thank all patients and staff involved in the studies.
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Research funding: Morten Baltzer Houlind is supported by the BRIDGE – Translational Excellence Programme (bridge.ku.dk) at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation (Grant No. NNF20SA0064340). This funder had no role in the design or content of this letter or the decision to submit this letter.
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Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
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Competing interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest in relation to this study.
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Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from study participants in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
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Ethical approval: Hospitalized older adults: Approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency (VD-2018-390) and Research Ethics Committees for the Capital Region (H-18023853), and registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (identifier: NTC03741283). Persons with type 2 diabetes: Approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency (P SDC-2015-036 (I-suite 03814) and SDC-2015-026 (I-suite 03473)), Research Ethics Committees for the Capital Region (H-15006370 and H-6-2014-117), and European Medicine Agency (EudraCT 2015-000335-32 and 2014-004502-15), and registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (identifier: NCT02914691 and NCT02545738). Patients with recent lung transplantation: Approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency (P-2020-657), Research Ethics Committees for the Capital Region (H-20000528), and European Medicine Agency (EudraCT 2008-004771-22), and registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (identifier: NCT02744872). Patients with recent heart transplantation: Approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency (2012-58-0004/RH-2017-80) and Danish Patient Safety Authority (3-3013-2004/1 and 3-3013-3039/1).
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