Alehagen, Urban
Johansson, Peter
Svensson, Erland
Aaseth, Jan
Alexander, Jan
Funding for this research was provided by:
County Council of Östergötland
PharmaNord ApS, Vejle, Denmark
Linköping University
Article History
Received: 4 October 2021
Accepted: 17 March 2022
First Online: 6 April 2022
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: The study was approved by the Regional Ethical Committee (Forskningsetikkommitten, Hälsouniversitetet, SE-581 85 Linköping, Sweden; No. D03-176), and conforms to the ethical guidelines of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki. (As the Medical Product Agency considered the trial as a trial of one food supplement and not a medication, it declined to review the study protocol). This study has been registered retrospectively at Clinicaltrials.gov, and has the identifier NCT01443780, as it was not mandatory to register at the time the study began.
: Informed consent was obtained from each patient regarding participation and publication of data.