Toft, Gunnar http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7542-6853
Heide-Jørgensen, Uffe
van Haalen, Heleen
James, Glen
Hedman, Katarina
Birn, Henrik
Christiansen, Christian F.
Thomsen, Reimar W.
Funding for this research was provided by:
AstraZeneca
Article History
Received: 8 July 2019
Accepted: 24 September 2019
First Online: 5 October 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: HvH, GJ and KH are employees and stockholders of AstraZeneca. GT, UHJ, HB, RWT and CFC do not report any personal conflicts of interest relevant to this study. The Department of Clinical Epidemiology is, however, involved in studies with funding from various companies as research grants to (and administered by) Aarhus University. This includes the present study, which received funding in part from AstraZeneca.
: The study was approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency. No approval from an ethics committee or informed consent from patients is required for registry studies in Denmark.
: All procedures performed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Danish National Committee on Health Research Ethics and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.