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DL is a post doctoral fellow supported by the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders (FWO, Belgium). PC is supported in part by the European Union (Biomed BMH4 CT98 3380), by grant #G0125.00 from the FWO, Belgium, by an unrestricted Bristol-Myers-Squibb grant, by grant #GOA2001/09 from the Concerted Research Activities, Belgium, and by grant #IAP-P5/02 from the Belgian Science Policy. KD is a senior clinical investigator of the FWO and is supported by grants from the Interuniversity Attraction Poles and the Belgian Foundation for Research in Paediatric Cardiology. This study was further supported by the National Institute of Health grant P50 HL62177 to DAD and EG, and by the Nutrition and Toxicology and Growth and Development Research Institutes in Maastricht to RV.
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Competing interests: none declared
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Ethics approval: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects and the Research Ethics Board in Philadelphia and Leuven, respectively, and written informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from all subjects or their legal representatives.