Eldem, Bora
Lai, Timothy Y. Y.
Ngah, Nor Fariza
Vote, Brendan
Yu, Hyeong Gon
Fabre, Alban
Backer, Arthur
Clunas, Nathan J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Novartis Pharma AG (Not applicable)
Article History
Received: 31 March 2017
Revised: 20 December 2017
Accepted: 27 December 2017
First Online: 3 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
: 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 authors acknowledge principal investigators for multiple studies (B.E., T.Y.Y.L., N.F.N., B.V., and H.G.Y.) and acknowledge fees from Novartis for conducting the study.B.E.’s institution has received grants for board membership, consultancy, and payment for lectures including service on speakers from Novartis Pharma AG, Bayer, Allergan, Alcon, Thea, B&L, Sanofi, Servier, Ophtotech, Roche, and Santen. T.Y.Y.L. and H.G.Y. have received fees from Allergan, Bayer, Novartis Pharma AG. B.V. has received fees and non-financial support from Novartis Pharma AG and Alcon.
: The study protocol was approved by ethics committees/institutional review boards. For this type of historical cohort study based on medical records formal consent was not always required.