Jakobsen, Marie http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3068-1428
Kolodziejczyk, Christophe
Jensen, Morten Sall
Poulsen, Peter Bo
Khan, Humma
Kümler, Thomas
Andersson, Michael
Funding for this research was provided by:
Pfizer Denmark (Not applicable)
Article History
Received: 11 November 2020
Accepted: 23 August 2021
First Online: 18 September 2021
Declarations
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: Neither informed consent from patients nor approval from an ethics committee was required by Danish law since the study was based on retrospective registry data only. Research Ethics Committees in Denmark assess only biomedical research.Administrative permissions to access the raw data used in the study were acquired from Statistics Denmark and The Danish Health Data Authority. The study was carried out in accordance with international ethical standards including the EU general data protection regulation. Data for statistical analyses were anonymized, and study results were reported so that it is not possible to identify individual persons.
: Not applicable.
: MJ, CK and MSJ are employees of the National Center for Social Science Research (VIVE), which was a paid vendor to Pfizer Denmark on the project. VIVE is an independent research institute, which is under obligation by law to disseminate the results of its work to relevant public and private stakeholders and the public in general.MA and TK are medical doctors with expertise in breast cancer and cardiovascular disease, respectively, and both report personal fees from Pfizer Denmark during the conduct of the study.PBP and HK are employees of Pfizer Denmark and own shares in Pfizer Inc. outside submitted work.