Rydholm, Maria http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9682-2070
Wikström, Ingegerd
Hagel, Sofia
Jacobsson, Lennart T. H.
Turesson, Carl http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3805-2290
Funding for this research was provided by:
Vetenskapsrådet (2015-02228)
Swedish Rheumatism Association (R-664091)
Lund University (ALFSKANE-446501)
Article History
Received: 17 July 2019
Accepted: 29 August 2019
First Online: 7 September 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the regional research committee (Regional Ethical Review Board for southern Sweden, Lund, Sweden—LU 410-94, January 30. 1995 and LU 311-02, June 10, 2002) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: All patients gave their written informed consent to participate, and the study was approved by the Regional Ethical Review Board for southern Sweden (Lund, Sweden).
: Not applicable
: The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are not publicly available due to Swedish legislation (the General Data Protection Regulation), but a limited and fully anonymised dataset containing the individual patient data that support the main analyses is available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.