Ladeiras-Lopes, Ricardo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5260-5613
Sampaio, Francisco
Leite, Sara
Santos-Ferreira, Diogo
Vilela, Eduardo
Leite-Moreira, Adelino
Bettencourt, Nuno
Gama, Vasco
Braga, Pedro
Fontes-Carvalho, Ricardo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Merck KGaA
Article History
Received: 24 November 2020
Accepted: 10 March 2021
First Online: 8 April 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This randomized trial was approved by the Local Ethics Committee, Portuguese Data Protection Agency, INFARMED (National Pharmacy and Medicines Institute) and CEIC (National Ethics Committee for Clinical Research). It is registered in www.clinicaltrials.gov with the Identifier NCT02017561. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.