Palominos, Penélope Esther http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0132-4325
Gossec, Laure
Kreis, Sarah
Hinckel, César Luis
da Silva Chakr, Rafael Mendonça
Moro, Ana Laura Didonet
Campbell, Willemina
de Wit, Maarten
Goel, Niti
Kohem, Charles Lubianca
Xavier, Ricardo Machado
Article History
Received: 9 July 2018
Accepted: 8 October 2018
First Online: 22 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. All patients gave their informed consent prior to their inclusion in the study. The study obtained ethical approval from the “Comitê de Ética do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil”, and the “Comité de Protection de Personnes- CPP Île-de-France VI, France”.
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: Niti Goel is an employee of Quintiles IMS but declares no conflict of interest regarding this manuscript. The other authors have disclosed no conflict of interest.
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