Chang, Chia-Hsien http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6988-7944
Sakaguchi, Motonobu
Funding for this research was provided by:
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
Article History
Received: 25 June 2019
Accepted: 4 August 2019
First Online: 14 August 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: CHC and MS are employees of Takeda. The authors declare they have no conflict of interest with respect to this research study and paper. The funder (Takeda, Japan) provided support in the form of salaries for authors (CHC, MS) and research materials only, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
: As secondary database we used for research purposes contained anonymized data only, this article does not contain any studies with human or animal subjects performed by any of the authors. Patient informed consent was not required, because it is impossible to link the identifiers with external information.