Van Weehaeghe, Donatienne
Devrome, Martijn
Schramm, Georg
De Vocht, Joke
Deckers, Wies
Baete, Kristof
Van Damme, Philip
Koole, Michel
Van Laere, Koen
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek ((1179620N), .., ...)
KOOR (...)
valerie perrier race (...)
als liga (...)
E. von Behring Chair for Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Disorders (...)
KU Leuven funds “Een Hart voor ALS”, “Laeversfonds voor ALS Onderzoek” (...)
Article History
Received: 31 December 2019
Accepted: 20 March 2020
First Online: 20 April 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: PVD, KVL and MK are senior clinical investigators of the research foundation of Flandres (FWO). PVD is supported by the E. von Behring Chair for Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Disorders, the ALS Liga België and the KU Leuven funds ‘Een Hart voor ALS’, ‘Laeversfonds voor ALS Onderzoek’ and ‘the Valéry Perrier Race against ALS fund’. MD and DVW and PhD fellows from FWO. JDV is funded by the Klinische onderzoeks- en opleidingsraad (KOOR) of the University Hospitals Leuven. No other conflicts of interest were present.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: This retrospective study was approved by the local University Hospital Ethics Committee; because of its retrospective nature, the need for written consent was waived.