About the Authors

Juha Mehtälä

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

juha.mehtala@gmail.com

Affiliation EPID Research, Espoo, Finland

Jihong Zong

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bayer LLC, Whippany, New Jersey, United States of America

Zdravko Vassilev

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bayer LLC, Whippany, New Jersey, United States of America

Gunnar Brobert

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bayer AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Montse Soriano Gabarró

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bayer AG, Berlin, Germany

Pär Stattin

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Houssem Khanfir

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation EPID Research, Espoo, Finland

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: This study was supported by Bayer AG. ZV, JZ, GB and MSG are employed by Bayer. JM and HK are employees of EPID Research, a contract research organization that performs commissioned pharmacoepidemiologic studies in collaboration with several pharmaceutical companies. PS has no conflict of interests reported. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.