About the Authors
- Juha Mehtälä
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft
* E-mail: juha.mehtala@gmail.com
Affiliation EPID Research, Espoo, Finland
- Jihong Zong
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Bayer LLC, Whippany, New Jersey, United States of America
- Zdravko Vassilev
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Bayer LLC, Whippany, New Jersey, United States of America
- Gunnar Brobert
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Bayer AB, Stockholm, Sweden
- Montse Soriano Gabarró
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Bayer AG, Berlin, Germany
- Pär Stattin
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Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Houssem Khanfir
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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.