Gowan, Tayler M.
Huffman, Monica
Weiner, Michael http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-4583
Talib, Tasneem L.
Schelfhout, Jonathan
Weaver, Jessica
Griffith, Ashley
Doshi, Ishita
Dexter, Paul
Bali, Vishal
Funding for this research was provided by:
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
Article History
Received: 20 June 2021
Accepted: 13 September 2021
First Online: 30 September 2021
Declarations
:
: Jessica Weaver, Jonathan Schelfhout, and Vishal Bali are employees of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA, and have stock ownership of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA. Ishita Doshi was an employee of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA, and was stock holder of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA. Michael Weiner’s potentially relevant stock holdings are as follows: Abbvie, Inc., Accuray Inc., Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Amgen, Inc., Boston Scientific Corp., Bristol Myers Squibb, Crispr Therapeutics Ag Com, Express Scripts Hldg Co., General Electric Co., Globus Med, Inc., Integer Hldgs Corp Com, Integra Lifesciences Holdings Corp., Intl Business Mach, Johnson & Johnson, Mallinckrodt PLC, Mead Johnson Nutrition, Medtronic PLC, Metlife Inc Com, Mylan N V SHS Euro, Novo-Nordisk A S ADR, Nuvasive, Inc., Orthofix Intl N.V., Perspecta Inc Com, Pfizer, Inc., Resmed, Inc., Roche Hldg Ltd., Seaspine Hldgs Corp., Senseonics Hldgs, Inc., Stryker Corp., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Varex Imaging Corp., Varian Med Sys, Inc., Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., Zimmer Biomet Hldgs, Inc., Zoetis, Inc. The study was sponsored by Merck, Sharp and Dohme. The following co-authors received funding for their work through Merck, Sharp and Dohme: Tayler Gowan, Michael Weiner, Monica Huffman, Tasneem L. Talib, Ashley Griffith, and Paul Dexter.
: Approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Board of Indiana University. The procedures used in this study adhere to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Participants provided written consent.
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