About the Authors
- Silvia Carreira Ribeiro
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Affiliation School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR), Curitiba, Brazil
- Ana Elizabeth Figueiredo
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Affiliation Graduate Program in Medicine and Health Sciences, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Pasqual Barretti
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Affiliation School of Medicine, UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil
- Roberto Pecoits-Filho
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Affiliation School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR), Curitiba, Brazil
- Thyago Proenca de Moraes
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* E-mail: thyago.moraes@pucpr.br
Affiliation School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR), Curitiba, Brazil
- all centers that contributed to the BRAZPD II study
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¶Centers that contributed to the BRAZPD II are provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
AF has received consulting fees and a speaker honorarium from Baxter Healthcare. PB has received consulting fees and a speaker honorarium from Baxter Healthcare. RPF has received research grants, consulting fees and speaker honorarium from Baxter Healthcare. TPM has received consulting fees and speaker honorarium from Baxter Healthcare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SCR RPF TPM. Performed the experiments: SCR AEF PB RPF TPM. Analyzed the data: SCR TPM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SCR AEF PB RPF TPM. Wrote the paper: SCR AEF PB RPF TPM.