Multiple cause of death analysis in multiple sclerosis
A population-based study
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- Received March 27, 2019
- Accepted in final form August 8, 2019
- First Published January 13, 2020.
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Author Disclosures
- Katharine Harding, PhD,
- Feng Zhu, MSc,
- Mohammed Alotaibi, MD,
- Thomas Duggan, BSc,
- Helen Tremlett, PhD and
- Elaine Kingwell, PhD
- Katharine Harding, PhD,
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Travel grant from Novartis UK to attend ECTRIMS 2018 in Berlin.
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Honoraria from Biogen UK and Merck UK to speak at a meeting
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- Feng Zhu, MSc,
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- Mohammed Alotaibi, MD,
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- Thomas Duggan, BSc,
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- Helen Tremlett, PhD and
All non-profit: Â National US surveillance system for MS. 2013-2019. Invited by the US National MS Society to form an advisory group to enable the development of a national surveillance system capable of tracking the incidence and prevalence of MS. Monthly teleconferences; one face-to-face meeting: Atlanta, Georgia (March 2014) Status: Bipartisan legislation introduced to Congress - ÂAdvancing Research for Neurological Diseases Act, H.R. 292.Âto guide the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in tracking the incidence and prevalence of neurological diseases, including Multiple Sclerosis and ParkinsonÂs disease [13th-Jan-2015; http://burgess.house.gov/blog/?postid=397459]
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Helen Tremlett is the Canada Research Chair for Neuroepidemiology and Multiple Sclerosis. Current research support received from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and the Multiple Sclerosis Scientific Research Foundation. In addition, in the last five years, has received research support from the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada (Don Paty Career Development Award); the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (Scholar Award) and the UK MS Trust; speaker honoraria and/or travel expenses to attend CME conferences from the Consortium of MS Centres (2013, 2018), the National MS Society (2014, 2016, 2018), ECTRIMS (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019), Biogen Idec (2014), American Academy of Neurology (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019). All speaker honoraria are either declined or donated to an MS charity or to an unrestricted grant for use by HTÂs research group.
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Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI); Canadian Institutes of Health Research [#363635 (co-PI); #190898 (PI); #404791; #387503; #388480 (all as PI); #MOP-82738 (PI) and MOP- 119393 (PI) and MOP-106607 (PI)]; the US National Multiple Sclerosis Society (Operating grants: 2012-15; 2014-17), the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada (2015-18: EGID #2624 (PI); 2016-18: EGID #2680 (co-PI); ) the The Multiple Sclerosis Scientific and Research Foundation (2015-18 (PI)); Canada Research Chair in Neuroepidemiology and Multiple Sclerosis
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- Elaine Kingwell, PhD
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(1) MS Society of Canada (EGID 2624) Role: Study Lead (2015-2019) (2) MS Society of Canada (EGID 3221 ) Role: Study Lead (2018-2020) (3) Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (#388480) Role: Co-investigator (2018-2022) (4) Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (#159828) Role: Co-investigator/Project Lead (2018-2019)
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- From the Faculty of Medicine (Neurology) and Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (K.H., F.Z., T.D., H.T., E.K.), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Department of Neurology (K.H.), Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, UK; and Department of Ophthalmology (M.A.), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Dr. Kingwell elainejk{at}mail.ubc.ca
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