Jacobs, Benjamin M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6023-6010
Tank, Pooja
Bestwick, Jonathan P.
Noyce, Alastair J.
Marshall, Charles R.
Mathur, Rohini
Giovannoni, Gavin
Dobson, Ruth
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medical Research Council
Article History
Received: 5 August 2023
Revised: 23 August 2023
Accepted: 24 August 2023
First Online: 7 September 2023
Declarations
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: BMJ has received speaker honoraria from Biogen and Roche. RM has received consulting fees from AMGEN. PT has no interests to declare. RD has received speaker honoraria from Biogen Idec, Teva, Merck, Janssen, Roche and Sanofi-Genzyme; sat on advisory boards for Roche, Merck, Novartis, Janssen and Biogen and received research support from Biogen, Merck and Celgene. GG has received speaker honoraria from AbbVie, Actelion, Biogen, Celgene, Sanofi-Genzyme, Genentech, Merck Serono, Novartis, Roche and Teva; sat on advisory boards for AbbVie, Actelion, Biogen, Celgene, Sanofi-Genzyme, Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck Serono, Novartis, Roche and Teva; and received research support from Sanofi-Genzyme, Takeda, and Merck SJ has received support for conferences, speaker, advisory boards, trials, Data and Safety Monitoring Boards and projects with CSL Behring, Takeda, Swedish Orphan Biovitrum, Biotest, Binding Site, Grifols, BPL, Octapharma, LFB, Pharming, GSK, Weatherden, Zarodex, Sanofi, and UCB Pharma. None of these conflicts relate to the current work. AN reports consultancy and personal fees from AstraZeneca, AbbVie, Profile, Roche, Biogen, UCB, Bial, Charco Neurotech, uMedeor, Alchemab, and Britannia, outside the submitted work. None of these conflicts relate to the current work. CM reports personal fees from Biogen and GE Healthcare, outside the submitted work.
: This study made use of Hospital Episode Statistics which are under copyright © (2023), re-used with the permission of The Health & Social Care Information Centre. All rights reserved. The study was approved by the CPRD Independent Scientific Advisory Committee (application number 21_000677). ONS data were provided by the ONS.
: This research was conducted and reported in accordance with the STROBE guidelines on observational studies.