Sousa, Claudia
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Rigueiro-Neves, Mariana
Passos, Ana Margarida
Ferreira, Aristides
Sá, Maria José
Article History
Received: 19 January 2021
Accepted: 23 March 2021
First Online: 21 April 2021
Declarations
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: Not applicable.
: All patients and all healthy control subjects provided written informed consent to participation in the study in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration. The Portuguese Data Protection Authority had approved data collection beforehand (N° 3313/2013). The Ethics Committees of Centro Hospital Universitário S. João, Porto (CE/63/2012) and all participating hospitals, approved the research project.
: MJS has received consulting/speaker fees from Bayer, Biogen, CSL Behring, Merck, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi and Teva.The other authors have nothing to disclose regarding this study.