https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7539-082X
About the Authors
- Manjiri Pawaskar
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Center for Observational and Real-World Evidence (CORE), Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America
- Colleen Burgess
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Center for Observational and Real-World Evidence (CORE), Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America
- Mathew Pillsbury
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Center for Observational and Real-World Evidence (CORE), Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America
- Torbjørn Wisløff
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Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
- Elmira Flem
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: elmira.flem@merck.com
Affiliation MSD, Drammen, Norway
Competing Interests
Manjiri Pawaskar and Mathew Pillsbury are employees of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ and own stock in Merck & Co., Inc. Kenilworth, NJ. Colleen Burges is a contractor of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ. Torbjørn Wisløff has a part-time advisory role to the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and received consultancy fees from Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ. Elmira Flem is an employee of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Drammen, Norway, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ and owns stock in Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ. Funding for this study was provided by Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.