Fisk, Marie http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1292-7642
Cheriyan, Joseph
Mohan, Divya
McEniery, Carmel M.
Forman, Julia
Cockcroft, John R.
Rudd, James H. F.
Tal-Singer, Ruth
Hopkinson, Nicholas S.
Polkey, Michael I.
Wilkinson, Ian B.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Innovate UK (915761188)
Article History
Received: 7 January 2018
Accepted: 27 April 2018
First Online: 24 May 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Data presented in this manuscript includes data from the EVOLVE study (REC 13/EE/0165, UK CRN ID 1513) and EVOLUTION trial (NCT01541852). Both studies recruited subjects from two UK tertiary centers and received favorable opinions from the Cambridge South Research Ethics Committee. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants and the studies were carried out in accordance with institutional guidelines and the Declaration of Helsinki.
: CMM, NSH, and JRF have no conflicts of interest to declare. MF and IBW received an educational award from GSK during the study period, GSK provide compensation for 50% of JC’s NHS salary for clinical trial work. JRC received a grant from GSK outside this submitted work, MIP reports grants from GSK and Innovate UK during the conduct of this study, DM and RTS are employees and shareholders of GSK.
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