Serum antinuclear autoantibodies are associated with measures of oxidative stress and lifestyle factors: analysis of LIPIDOGRAM2015 and LIPIDOGEN2015 studies.

"Conflict of interest JJJ and MB have received an unrestricted educational grant from Valeant, and have served as consultants or speakers for Valeant. PK is employed by Euroimmun Polska Sp. z o.o., (Wroclaw, Poland), whose autoantibody reagents were used in the study. PEP owns four shares in AstraZeneca PLC and has received honoraria and/or travel reimbursement for events sponsored by AKCEA, Amgen, AMRYT, Link Medical, Mylan, Napp, Sanofi. All other authors have no conflict of interest concerning the results of this analysis."

"Research funding: The present study was an initiative of the Polish Lipid Association (PoLA) and the College of Family Physicians in Poland (CFPiP). The present study was funded by an unrestricted educational grant from Valeant (Warsaw, Poland). Valeant had no role in study design, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report. The present study was also supported by the Silesian Analytical Laboratories (SLA), CHDE, BIO-RAD and Euroimmun."