Article History
Received: 12 November 2018
Accepted: 20 February 2019
First Online: 28 February 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: For the RAPID trial, all patients provided written informed consent and approval from all local institutional review boards participating in the trial was obtained. For the normal database, all subjects included were asked to participate in the study and gave written informed consent. Approval for the study was obtained from the ethical board of LUMC.
: Not applicable
: BCS is consultant for CSL-Behring and BioClinica, the contract research organization that performed the lung densitometry for the RAPID trial.JS received funding for projects from CSL Behring and Kamada.MEB does not have competing interest.DGP has received lecture fees, served on Advisory Boards and provided independent consultancy services to CSL Behring.
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