Amato, Maria Pia
Goretti, Benedetta
Brescia Morra, Vincenzo
Gallo, Paolo
Zaffaroni, Mauro
Onofrj, Marco
Cocco, Eleonora
Borriello, Giovanna
Zipoli, Valentina
Trojano, Maria
Article History
Received: 23 October 2019
Accepted: 28 February 2020
First Online: 1 May 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: VZ: employee of Biogen;PT and BG: speaker honoraria from Biogen and Teva;VBM: funding for travel and speaker honoraria and research support from Bayer Schering, Biogen, Merck Serono, and Sanofi-Genzyme;PG: served on scientific advisory boards of Almirall, Bayer Schering, Biogen Italy, Merck Serono, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, and Teva; received travel funding and/or speaker honoraria from Biogen Italy, Merck Serono, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, and Teva;MZ: honoraria for consultancy, lecturing, or participation in advisory boards and financial support for attending scientific meetings from Almirall, Biogen, Genzyme, Merck Serono, Novartis, and Teva;MO, EC, and CP: scientific advisory boards for Actelion, Biogen, Genzyme, Merck Serono, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi, and Teva; consulting and/or speaking fees, research support, and travel grants from Allergan, Almirall, Biogen, Genzyme, Merck Serono, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi, and Teva;MT: served on scientific advisory boards for Biogen, Genzyme, Novartis, and Roche; has received speaker honoraria from Almirall, Bayer Schering, Biogen, Genzyme, Merck Serono, Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis, and Teva; and has received research grants for her institution from Biogen, Merck Serono, and Novartis;MPA: research grants and speaker honoraria from and member of advisory boards for Biogen, Bayer, Merck, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi-Genzyme, and Teva.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the reference institutional research committee of each participating site and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was signed by all participants prior to any study-related procedure was started. The study protocol was approved by the reference Ethic Committee of each study site.