Letter to the EditorBMI does not influence the prediction of cardiac events using stress CMR☆
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Acknowledgments
We thank our MR technicians Angela Stöcker-Wochele, Birgit Hoerig, Daniel Helm (Heidelberg) and Gudrun Großer, Janina Denzer and Corinna Else (Berlin) for help with performing the high quality cardiac stress MR-examinations. We also thank Anne Gale for editorial assistance.
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