Dr. Low noted that the data on the use of steroids was quite crude and often the dose was not recorded, and even less information about NSAIDs was available. "This is something that we will have to work on, and it does remain to be a potential confounding factor in the analysis," she concluded.
The BSRBR is funded by a grant from the BSR, which receives funding from multiple drug companies. This income finances a separate contract between the BSR and the University of Manchester that provides and runs the BSRBR. Dr. Low had no personal conflicts of interest.