Viral hepatitis and Parkinson disease
A national record-linkage study
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- Received June 29, 2016
- Accepted in final form January 25, 2017
- First Published March 29, 2017.
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Author Disclosures
- Julia Pakpoor, BA, BM BCh*,
- Alastair Noyce, MRCP, PhD*,
- Raph Goldacre, MSc,
- Marianna Selkihova, MRCP, PhD,
- Stephen Mullin, BSc, MRCP,
- Anette Schrag, FRCP, PhD,
- Andrew Lees, FRCP, MD and
- Michael Goldacre, FFPH, FRCP
- Julia Pakpoor, BA, BM BCh*,
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- Alastair Noyce, MRCP, PhD*,
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(1) Britannia Pharmaceuticals, honoraria (2) Office octopus, honoraria (3) Global Kinetics Corporation, honoraria
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(1) Elan pharmaceuticals (2) GE Healthcare
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(1) Parkinson's UK
(1) Lifelab Online
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- Raph Goldacre, MSc,
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- Marianna Selkihova, MRCP, PhD,
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- Stephen Mullin, BSc, MRCP,
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(1) Shire pharmaceutical, Honoraria for presentation at conference (?1000)
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(1) Honoraria for conference presentation (Shire - ?1000)
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- Anette Schrag, FRCP, PhD,
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Member of the editorial boards of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders and Movement Disorders
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Rating Scales in Parkinson's disease. Oxford University Press, 2012
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Medtronic Grunenthal
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Astra Zeneca stocks
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- Andrew Lees, FRCP, MD and
Britannia, UCB phrama, Teva, Lundbeck, BIAL, Roche, Nordiclnfu Care, NeuroDerm, Decision Resources
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Britannia, UCB pharma, Teva, Lundbeck, BIAL, Roche, Nordiclnfu Care, NeuroDerm, Decision Resources
2006 Archivas de Nevropsiquiatria (Brazil) 1995-03 Co-Editor in Chief, Movement Disorders Journal and Historical Section Editor 1994-98 Founder Editor, Behavioural Neurology 1994- Neurologia Espana 1994-00 Revista Neurologica, Argentina 1994-95 European Journal of Neurology 1993-Revue Neurologique 1993-03 Brain 1991-95 Journal Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 1989-95 Journal of Neurology 1988-95 Journal of Neural Transmission
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Institute of Neurology, UCL
Britannia Pharmaceutical, BIAL Portela
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Frances and Renee Hock Fund
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- Michael Goldacre, FFPH, FRCP
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- From the Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology (J.P., R.G., M.G.), Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford; and UCL Institute of Neurology (A.N., M.S., S.M., A.S., A.L.), Queen Square, London, UK.
- Correspondence to Dr. Goldacre: michael.goldacre{at}dph.ox.ac.uk
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