Watz, Henrik
Tetzlaff, Kay
Magnussen, Helgo
Mueller, Achim
Rodriguez-Roisin, Roberto
Wouters, Emiel F. M.
Vogelmeier, Claus
Calverley, Peter M. A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Boehringer Ingelheim
Article History
Received: 20 August 2018
Accepted: 20 November 2018
First Online: 13 December 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, the International Conference on Harmonisation’s Harmonised Tripartite Guideline for Good Clinical Practice and local regulations. The protocol was approved by the ethics research board of the respective institutions.
: Not applicable.
: HW reports that his institute was reimbursed by Boehringer Ingelheim for the conduct of the study, and he received personal fees from AstraZeneca, Berlin-Chemie, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Roche outside the submitted work. HM reports personal fees from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis and ndd Medical Technologies during the conduct of the study. RR-R reports personal fees from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim and Pearl Therapeutics outside the submitted work. EFMW reports personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, Nycomed, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Chiesi. CV reports grants and personal fees from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, GlaxoSmithKline, Grifols, Mundipharma, Novartis and Takeda, personal fees from Almirall, Cipla, Berlin-Chemie/Menarini, CSL Behring and Teva, and grants from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research’ (BMBF) Competence Network Asthma and COPD (ASCONET), Bayer Schering Pharma AG, MSD and Pfizer outside the submitted work. PMAC reports grants and personal fees from GlaxoSmithKline and Takeda, personal fees from AstraZeneca and Novartis, and personal fees and non-financial support from Boehringer Ingelheim outside the submitted work.KT and AM are employees of Boehringer Ingelheim.
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