Vagotomy and Parkinson disease
A Swedish register–based matched-cohort study
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- Received November 21, 2016
- Accepted in final form February 21, 2017
- First Published April 26, 2017.
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Author Disclosures
- Bojing Liu, MSc,
- Fang Fang, MD, PhD,
- Nancy L. Pedersen, PhD,
- Annika Tillander, PhD,
- Jonas F. Ludvigsson, MD, PhD,
- Anders Ekbom, MD, PhD,
- Per Svenningsson, MD, PhD,
- Honglei Chen, MD, PhD and
- Karin Wirdefeldt, MD, PhD
- Bojing Liu, MSc,
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1) Swedish Society of Medicine, travel grant for the 20th Movement disorders congress
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- Fang Fang, MD, PhD,
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Swedish Research Council, grant No. 2015-03170, PI, 2016- 2019
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Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Society for Medical Research, and the Karolinska Institutet.
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- Nancy L. Pedersen, PhD,
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International Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Genetics, Associate Editor in Chief, 2009 - 2015
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Swedish Research Council, grant number 521-2013-2488, PI, 2014-2017
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- Annika Tillander, PhD,
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- Jonas F. Ludvigsson, MD, PhD,
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European Journal of Epidemiology [roughly 2013-] Alimentary Pharmacology Therapeutics [roughly 2012-]
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Only Swedish publishers: Books related to either pediatrics or epidemiology: 1. att b?rja forska (Studentlitteratur), 2015 2. akutpediatrik (Liber), 2010 3. barnmedicin i ett n?tskal (Studentlitteratur), 2004
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- Anders Ekbom, MD, PhD,
(1) Centocor, (2) Wyatt
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(1) AstraZeneca, speaker honoraria
(1) Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, Editor, 1995-present; (2) European Journal of Epidemiology, Editor, 2003-present; (3) Journal of Internal Medicine, Editor, 2007-present
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(1) Stockholm County Council (ALF), LS 1001-0029, PI, 7 yrs
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(1) Swedish Cancer Society
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- Per Svenningsson, MD, PhD,
CBD solutions AB
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PLoS ONE, Academic editor, 2012-2017 Neuropharmacology, Academic editor, 2016-2017
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Swedish Research Council 2016_2019 ALF Stockholm 2017_2019 Wallenberg Clinical Scholar 2017_2021
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- Honglei Chen, MD, PhD and
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2009- International Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Genetics 2010- American Journal of Epidemiology 2012- American Journal of Neurodegenerative Disease
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NIH intramural funding (Z01-ES-101986) Principal Investigator 2007-2016
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- Karin Wirdefeldt, MD, PhD
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(1) Swedish Research Council for Health, Working life and Welfare, 2013-01350, 2014-2016 (2) KI-NIH Doctoral Partnership Program in Neuroscience
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(1) The Parkinson Research Foundation in Sweden
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- From the Departments of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (B.L., F.F., N.L.P., A.T., J.F.L., K.W.), Medicine (A.E.), and Clinical Neuroscience (P.S., K.W.), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Psychology (N.L.P.), University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Department of Paediatrics (J.F.L.), Örebro University Hospital, Sweden; and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (H.C.), College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
- Correspondence to B. Liu: bojing.liu{at}ki.se
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