Leino, Akseli http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7918-9373
Westeren-Punnonen, Susanna
Töyräs, Juha
Myllymaa, Sami
Leppänen, Timo
Ylä-Herttuala, Salla
Muraja-Murro, Anu
Kantanen, Anne-Mari
Autere, Jaana
Jäkälä, Pekka
Mervaala, Esa
Myllymaa, Katja
Funding for this research was provided by:
Academy of Finland (313697)
Suomen Kulttuurirahasto
The Research Committee of the Kuopio University Hospital Catchment Area for the State Research Funding (5041767, 5041768, 5041776, 5041748, 5041764, 5041770)
Kuopion Seudun Hengityssäätiö
Päivikki ja Sakari Sohlbergin Säätiö
Hengityssairauksien Tutkimussäätiö
Paulon Säätiö
Tampereen Tuberkuloosisäätiö
Academy of Finland (323536)
Business Finland (5133/31/2018)
Article History
Received: 14 July 2019
Revised: 19 December 2019
Accepted: 23 December 2019
First Online: 14 January 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: Dr. Kantanen has received a speaker’s honoraria from Orion, Boehringer Ingelheim, MSD, BMS.
: 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. The Research Ethics Committee of Hospital District of Northern Savo, Kuopio, Finland, gave a favorable opinion for the collection and use of the datasets (50/2014).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants recruited for this the study or their next of kin. In this type of study, formal consent for retrospective data is not required.