About the Authors
- Bianca Kollhorst
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft
* E-mail: kollhorst@leibniz-bips.de
Affiliation Department of Biometry and Data Management, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology–BIPS, Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- Kathrin Jobski
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Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Outpatient Care and Pharmacoepidemiology, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
- Jutta Krappweis
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM), Kurt-Georg-Kiesinger-Allee, Bonn, Germany
- Tania Schink
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Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Biometry and Data Management, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology–BIPS, Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- Edeltraut Garbe
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Biometry and Data Management, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology–BIPS, Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- Niklas Schmedt
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Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation InGef—Institute for Applied Health Research, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Competing Interests
Bianca Kollhorst and Tania Schink are working and Edeltraut Garbe, Kathrin Jobski, and Niklas Schmedt were working at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS. Unrelated to this study, BIPS occasionally conducts studies financed by the pharmaceutical industry. Almost exclusively, these are post-authorization safety studies (PASS) requested by health authorities. The studies and the resulting publications are not influenced by the pharmaceutical industry. Edeltraut Garbe has been consultant to Bayer, Nycomed, Takeda, Astellas, Novartis, and GSK unrelated to the subject of this study. Jutta Krappweis is an employee of the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.