Mennini, Francesco S.
Scortichini, Matteo
Colivicchi, Furio
Maggioni, Aldo P.
Sciattella, Paolo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8364-1895
Funding for this research was provided by:
Servier Group Italy
Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
Article History
Accepted: 30 April 2024
First Online: 9 September 2024
Declarations
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: Open access funding provided by Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata within the CRUI-CARE Agreement. This study was funded by Servier Group Italy. The funder had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
: Francesco S. Mennini, Matteo Scortichini, Paolo Sciattella, and Furio Colivicchi have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose. Aldo P. Maggioni received personal fees for participating in committees of studies supported by Bayer, AstraZeneca, Novartis, and Sanofi outside the present work.
: According to the rules from the Italian Medicines Agency (available at ), retrospective studies using administrative databases do not require Ethics Committee protocol approval.
: According to the General Authorization for the Processing of Personal Data for Scientific Research Purposes issued by the Italian Privacy Authority on 10 August, 2018 (available at ), this study was exempt from informed consent.
: Not applicable.
: The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request and with permission of the Marche region and LHU Umbria 2.
: The R code is available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: All authors contributed to the study conception. PS and FSM developed the study design, PS and MS conducted the statistical analysis and derived the analytical results. The first draft of the manuscript was written by MS and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.