Valenzuela, Belén http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2317-5028
Pérez-Ruixo, Juan-José http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9890-745X
Leirens, Quentin http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1468-1359
Ouwerkerk-Mahadevan, Sivi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9150-923X
Poggesi, Italo http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3079-6954
Funding for this research was provided by:
Actelion Pharmaceuticals
Article History
Accepted: 25 March 2021
First Online: 29 April 2021
Declarations
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: This study was supported by Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Part of Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, Allschwil, Switzerland.
: Belén Valenzuela and Juan Jose Perez-Ruixo are employees of Janssen-Cilag Spain, part of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Company of Johnson & Johnson, and hold stock in Johnson & Johnson. Quentin Leirens was an employee of SGS Exprimo, part of SGS Belgium NV, at the time this analysis was conducted. Sivi Ouwerkerk-Mahadevan is an employee of Janssen NV, part of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Company of Johnson & Johnson, and holds stock in Johnson & Johnson. Italo Poggesi is an employee of Janssen-Cilag Italy, part of Janssen Pharmaceutical Company of Johnson & Johnson, and holds stock in Johnson & Johnson.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Protocols were reviewed and approved by an Institutional Review Board.
: Freely given, informed consent to participate was obtained for all human participants in this study.
: Not applicable.
: The data sharing policy of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson is available at ExternalRef removed. As noted on that site, requests for access to the study data can be submitted through the Yale Open Data Access (YODA) Project site at ExternalRef removed.
: Not applicable.
: All authors participated in the original design of the studies and monitoring of data quality, and contributed to data interpretation, and development and review of this manuscript. They confirm that they have read the journal’s position on issues involved in ethical publication and affirm that this report is consistent with those guidelines. All authors meet the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) criteria and all those who fulfilled those criteria are listed as authors. All authors had access to the study data, provided direction and comments on the manuscript, made the final decision on where to publish these data, and approved submission to this journal.