Peng, Kuan
Blais, Joseph E. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7895-198X
Pratt, Nicole L.
Guo, Jeff Jianfei
Hillen, Jodie B.
Stanford, Tyman
Ward, Michael
Lai, Edward Chia-Cheng
Shin, Ju-Young
Tong, Xinning
Fan, Min
Cheng, Franco W. T.
Wu, Jing
Yeung, Winnie W. Y.
Lau, Chak-Sing
Leung, Wai Keung
Wong, Ian C. K.
Funding for this research was provided by:
NHMRC Project Grant (1157506, 1196900)
RGC Early Career Scheme, University Grants Committee of Hong Kong (27603421)
Enhanced Start-up Fund for new academic staff, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong
Internal Research Fund, Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong.
Article History
Accepted: 21 February 2023
First Online: 23 March 2023
Declarations
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: This research was funded by NHMRC Project Grant (GNT1157506 and GNT1196900), Australian Government; RGC Early Career Scheme, University Grants Committee of Hong Kong (Reference number: 27603421), Enhanced Start-up Fund for new academic staff, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong; Internal Research Fund, Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, and The University of Hong Kong.
: XL received research grants from the Research Fund Secretariat of the Food and Health Bureau (HMRF, HKSAR), Research Grants Council Early Career Scheme (RGC/ECS, HKSAR), Janssen, and Pfizer; internal funding from The University of Hong Kong; a consultancy fee from Merck Sharp & Dohme and Pfizer, unrelated to this work. Nicole L. Pratt received research grants from the Australian Government. JJG reports payment of speaker fees from AbbVie, and Takeda. WKL received speaker fees from Abbvie, Ferring, Janssen, and Takeda. All outside the submitted work. CSL reports payment of speaker fees from AbbVie, Astra Zeneca, GSK, Janssen, Pfizer, and Roche. He has also participated on the Astra Zeneca Data Safety Advisory Board. All outside the submitted work. ICKW reports research funding outside the submitted work from Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer, Janssen, Bayer, GSK, Novartis, the Hong Kong RGC, and the Hong Kong Health and Medical Research Fund, National Institute for Health Research in England, European Commission, National Health, and Medical Research Council in Australia, and has also received speaker fees from Janssen and Medice in the previous 3 years. He is also an independent non-executive director of Jacobson Medical in Hong Kong. All other authors report no conflicts of interest.
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: The data that support the findings of this study are available from IQVIA Inc. Restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for this study. Data are available with the permission of IQVIA Inc.
: The analytic code is available at .
: Study concept and design: XL, KP. Data acquisition: XL, NLP, ICKW, JJG. Data extractions, cleaning, and analysis: KP. Data validation and cross-check: XT, JB, FWTC, JBH, TS, MW. Data interpretation: all authors. Statistical support: MF. Drafting of the manuscript: KP, JB, XL. Critical revision of the manuscript of significant intellectual contribution: all authors. Funding acquisition: NLP, ICKW, XL. Study supervision: XL.