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Balanced sex distribution in patients with Menière’s disease

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We thank Katie Göttlinger for copyediting the manuscript. This work is part of the unpublished doctoral thesis of Constanze Wittmann.

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  1. Department of Neurology and DSGZ, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Campus Großhadern, Marchioninistr. 15, 81377, Munich, Germany

    Sandra Becker-Bense, Constanze Wittmann & Marianne Dieterich

  2. German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders-IFB (DSGZ LMU), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

    Sandra Becker-Bense, Constanze Wittmann & Marianne Dieterich

  3. Munich Cluster of Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany

    Marianne Dieterich

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The study was not industry sponsored. This work was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, Grant codes 01 EO 0901 and 01 EO 1401), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) within the framework of the Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (EXC 1010 SyNergy), and the Deutsche Stiftung Neurologie (DSN).

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This manuscript is part of a supplement sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the funding initiative for integrated research and treatment centers.

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Becker-Bense, S., Wittmann, C. & Dieterich, M. Balanced sex distribution in patients with Menière’s disease. J Neurol 266 (Suppl 1), 42–46 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-019-09301-4

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