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"Financial disclosure For this study, there is no financial disclosure. Conflict of interest Clemens Heiser is a consultant for Inspire Medical Systems and received consultancy fees, reimbursement of conference fees, and travel and accommodation expenses from Neuwirth Medical Products, Löwenstein, and Sutter Medizintechnik. Furthermore, he is a consultant and on the advisory board of Galvani. Olivier Vanderveken has the following potential conflicts of interest related to the topic of the manuscript: research support and lecture fees from Inspire Medical Systems, research grant from and consultancy for Philips Respironics, research grant and lecture fees from Somnomed, consultancy for Nyxoah, research support from ReVent, research support from Nightbalance. Benedikt Hofauer received personal fees and travel expenses from Inspire Medical Systems. Günther Edenharter has no conflict of interest."

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"The study was approved by ethics committees and registered with http://www.clinicaltrials.gov (NCT02907398). All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later revision. Informed consent was signed by every patient. Consecutive patients, who received an sHNS implant with previously described inclusion criteria (Inspire II, Inspire Medical Systems, Maple Grove, MN, USA) at a single center in Munich, Germany, from October 2017 to November 2018 were included []."