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"CONFLICT OF INTEREST The author(s) declared the following potential conflicts of interest concerning the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: AM, CM, and EF were partly funded by research grants from Biogen. EF has received unrestricted researcher‐initiated grants from Celgene and KA from Biogen. JH received honoraria for serving on advisory boards for Biogen and Novartis and speaker's fees from Biogen, Merck‐Serono, Bayer‐Schering, Teva, and Sanofi‐Aventis. He has served as PI for projects sponsored by or received unrestricted research support from Biogen, Merck‐Serono, TEVA, Novartis, and Bayer‐Schering. JH's MS research is also funded by the Swedish Research Council."

"The project was supported by unrestricted grants from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency and utilized data from the REWHARD consortium supported by the Swedish Research Council. The design of the study, data collection, analyses, interpretations of data, and manuscript drafting were performed without the involvement of the funding bodies"