Moradi, Nahid
Sharmin, Sifat
Malpas, Charles
Ozakbas, Serkan
Shaygannejad, Vahid
Terzi, Murat
Boz, Cavit
Yamout, Bassem
Turkoglu, Recai
Karabudak, Rana
Hamdy, Sherif
Soysal, Aysun
Altıntaş, Ayşe
Inshasi, Jihad
Al-Harbi, Talal
Alroughani, Raed
Kalincik, Tomas http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3778-1376
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Article History
Accepted: 31 May 2021
First Online: 23 June 2021
Declarations
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: No financial support was utilized in the study design, data gathering, analysis and writing of this manuscript.
: The MSBase Foundation acknowledges financial contributions to support the MSBase Registry from Biogen, Novartis, Merck, Roche and Sanofi Genzyme. NM has received compensation for consulting services from Actoverco Pharmaceuticals. RA received honoraria as a speaker and for serving on scientific advisory boards from Bayer, Biogen, GSK, Merck, Novartis, Roche and Sanofi-Genzyme. MT received travel grants from Novartis, Bayer-Schering, Merck and Teva; has participated in clinical trials by Sanofi Aventis, Roche and Novartis. CB received conference travel support from Biogen, Novartis, Bayer-Schering, Merck and Teva; has participated in clinical trials by Sanofi Aventis, Roche and Novartis. AA received personal fees and speaker honoraria from Teva, Merck, Biogen - Gen Pharma, Roche, Novartis, Bayer, Sanofi-Genzyme; received travel and registration grants from Merck, Biogen - Gen Pharma, Roche, Sanofi-Genzyme and Bayer. TK served on scientific advisory boards for BMS, Roche, Sanofi Genzyme, Novartis, Merck and Biogen, a steering committee for Brain Atrophy Initiative by Sanofi Genzyme, received conference travel support and/or speaker honoraria from WebMD Global, Novartis, Biogen, Sanofi-Genzyme, Teva, BioCSL and Merck and received research or educational event support from Biogen, Novartis, Genzyme, Roche, Celgene and Merck. SSH, CM, SO, VSH, BY, RT, RK, SH, AS, JI and TAH declare no conflicts of interest.
: This research was conducted in accordance with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by Melbourne Health Human Research Ethics Committee (2006.044) and local ethics committees in participating centers (unless exemption granted by the local regulations). MSBase is registered with WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ID ACTRN12605000455662). All participants have provided written or verbal consent to be registered in MSBase. Only pseudonymized non-identifiable data was utilized for the purpose of this study.
: The data analyzed in this study are the property of the individual contributing centers. They can be made available upon reasonable request for the purpose of replication of the analyses included in this study and at the discretion of the principal investigators.
: Available upon request.
: Not applicable.
: NM, SS, CM and TK designed, analyzed and drafted the manuscript. RA, SO, VS, MT, CB, BY, RT, RK, SH, AS, AA, JI, TAH revised the manuscript.All authors have read and approved the submitted manuscript.