Mateu-Jimenez, Mercè
Curull, Víctor
Rodríguez-Fuster, Alberto
Aguiló, Rafael
Sánchez-Font, Albert
Pijuan, Lara
Gea, Joaquim
Barreiro, Esther
Funding for this research was provided by:
Instituto de Salud Carlos III (CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias, FIS 11/02029 (FEDER), FIS 14/00713 (FEDER), PT13/0010/0005 (FEDER))
Sociedad Española de Neumología y Cirugía Torácica (SEPAR 2016)
Fundació Catalana de Pneumologia (FUCAP 2016)
Fondazione Internazionale Menarini (unrestricted grant from Menarini SA 2014)
Article History
Received: 25 July 2017
Accepted: 19 November 2017
First Online: 16 January 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Approval was obtained from the institutional Ethics Committee on Human Investigation (Hospital del Mar–IMIM, Barcelona, project number 2014/5776/1) in accordance with the World Medical Association guidelines (Helsinki Declaration of 2008) for research on human beings. Informed written consent was obtained from all patients at study entry and prior to initiation of therapies.
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