Ge, Grace Mengqin
Man, Kenneth K. C.
Cheung, Edmund C. L.
Ip, Patrick
Leung, Wing Cheong
Kung, Annie W. C.
Cheung, Ching-Lung
Wong, Ian C. K. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8242-0014
Article History
Accepted: 12 September 2023
First Online: 16 October 2023
Declarations
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: KM reported grants from C W Maplethorpe during the conduct of the study as well as grants from the National Institute of Health Research, European Commission Framework Horizon 2020, Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC), the Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health by the Hong Kong Government InnoHK initiative and personal fees from IQVIA outside the submitted work. IW reported research funding from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, the European Commission and the Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health by the Hong Kong Government InnoHK initiative. PI reported funding from the RGC, Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF) and Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. CLC received research grants and honorarium from Amgen, research grant support from HMRF and honorarium from Abbott. The other authors declare no competing interests.
: This study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Hong Kong/Hospital Authority Hong Kong West Cluster for CDARS database research (Reference Number: UW 20-166).
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: The author confirms that the data supporting the findings of this study are available within the article and its supplementary materials. Raw data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, upon reasonable request.
: All code for data cleaning and analysis associated with this study is available from the corresponding author, upon reasonable request.
: GG, KM, IW and CLC contributed to the conception of the work, designed the study and decided the methodology. GG and EC performed the analysis. GG wrote the first draft of the manuscript, had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. KM, IW, CLC, PI, WCL and AK interpreted, critically evaluated and improved the study design and manuscript, and shared the responsibility for the final manuscript and the decision to submit. All authors read and approve the final manuscript.