Surial, Bernard
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Cavassini, Matthias
Calmy, Alexandra
Fehr, Jan
Stöckle, Marcel
Bernasconi, Enos
Roth, Bianca
Fux, Christoph A.
Kovari, Helen
Furrer, Hansjakob
Rauch, Andri
Wandeler, Gilles
Funding for this research was provided by:
Swiss National Science Foundation (177499, PP00P3_176944)
Article History
Received: 28 April 2019
Accepted: 10 September 2019
First Online: 10 October 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This cohort study was approved by Local ethical committees of each cohort center: “Ehtikkomission beider Basel”, “Kantonale Ethikkommission Bern”, “Comité d’Ethique Genève”, “Comission cantonale d’éthique Vaud”, “Comitato etico cantonale Ticino”, “Ethik-Kommission St. Gallen”, and “Kantonale Ethik-Kommission Zürich” and all patients provided written informed consent.
: Not applicable.
: BS reports support to his institution for travel grants from Gilead Sciences outside the submitted work. MC reports support to his institution for expert opinion and/or travel grant from Abbvie, Gilead, MSD and Viiv, and an unrestricted research grant from Gilead and Viiv outside the submitted work. JF reports support to his institution for advisory boards and/or travel grants from and/or unrestricted grants from Abbvie, Gilead Sciences, Janssen-Cilag, MSD, and Viiv-Healthcare. All remuneration was provided outside the submitted work. HF reports unrestricted educational grant supports to his home institution by Gilead Sciences, Viiv, Abbvie, Bristol-Myers Squibb and MSD outside the submitted work. AR reports support to his institution for advisory boards and/or travel grants from Janssen-Cilag, MSD, Gilead Sciences, Abbvie, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, and an unrestricted research grant from Gilead Sciences. All remuneration went to his home institution and not to AR personally, and all remuneration was provided outside the submitted work. GW reports support to his home institution for advisory boards and/or travel grants from MSD, Gilead Sciences and Abbvie, and an unrestricted research grant from Gilead Sciences. All remuneration was provided outside the submitted work.