Murley, Chantelle http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4150-4275
Friberg, Emilie
Hillert, Jan
Alexanderson, Kristina
Yang, Fei
Funding for this research was provided by:
Forskningsrådet om Hälsa, Arbetsliv och Välfärd (2007-1762)
Biogen
Article History
Received: 23 April 2019
Accepted: 29 August 2019
First Online: 6 September 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare the following interests based on ICMJE recommendations with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: CM, EF, and FY received salaries partly funded by an unrestricted research grant from Biogen. KA has received unrestricted research grants from Biogen. JH has received honoraria for serving on advisory boards or steering committees for Biogen, Merck, Sanofi-Genzyme and Novartis and speaker’s fees from Biogen, Novartis, Merck-Serono, Bayer-Schering, Teva and Sanofi-Genzyme. He has served as Principal Investigator for projects, or received unrestricted research support from, BiogenIdec, Merck-Serono, TEVA, Sanofi-Genzyme and Bayer-Schering and his research is also supported by the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish Brain Foundation.
: Ethical approval for the project was granted by the Regional Ethical Review Board of Stockholm, Sweden (Dnr: 2007/762-31; 2009/23-32; 2009/1917-32; 2011/1710-32; 2012/863-32; and 2014/236-32), in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Due to the register-based nature of this project and given that all data were anonymised when delivered to us, we do not have information about the identity of those included in analyses. Accordingly, there was no informed consent from the patients involved, in line with the Ethical approval.