Khalid, Sara
Reyes, Carlen
Ernst, Martin
Delmestri, Antonella
Toth, Emese
Libanati, Cesar
Abrahamsen, Bo
Prieto-Alhambra, Daniel http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3950-6346
Funding for this research was provided by:
UCB
Article History
Received: 4 January 2021
Accepted: 19 July 2021
First Online: 15 August 2021
Declarations
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: BA reports grants from UCB, during the conduct of the study, personal fees from UCB, grants from Novartis, personal fees from Amgen, personal fees from Eli-Lilly and personal fees from Pharmacosmos, outside the submitted work. ME reports institutional grants from UCB, during the conduct of the study. CL reports being an employee and stockholder of UCB Pharma. DPA reports grants and others from AMGEN; grants, non-financial support and others from UCB Biopharma; and grants from Les Laboratoires Servier, outside the submitted work; Janssen, on behalf of IMI-funded EHDEN and EMIF consortiums, and Synapse Management Partners have supported training programmes organized by DPA’s department and open for external participants. ET is an employee of UCB Pharma, who sponsored the study. AD, SK and CR have no conflicts to declare.
: Consent to participate was not required as only anonymised retrospective data was used for this study, and no patient or GP contact was required.
: All authors have given their consent for the publication.
: All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committees of each country (Spain, UK and Denmark) and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. More specifically, for the UK, the study was approved by the Independent Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC 17_128R); for Spain, the study was approved by the IDIAP J Gol Clinical Research Ethics Committee (P17_152); and for Denmark, the study was approved by Statistics Denmark (Reference 706638).
: Informed consent was not required as only anonymised retrospective data was used for this study, and no patient or GP contact was required.