Koshizuka, Hiromi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5826-6755
Momo, Kenji
Watanabe, Ayako
Matsuzaki, Airi
Kashiwabara, Yuka
Tanaka, Katsumi
Lindholm, Bengt
Sasaki, Tadanori
Article History
Accepted: 29 June 2023
First Online: 1 August 2023
Declarations
:
: None.
: KM, TS (Showa University), and JMDC Inc. collaborated on other projects according to the collaborative research agreement. JMDC Inc. did not intervene in data implementation according to the analyzed results of this study. KM received honorarium fees for presentations from JMDC Inc. and Abbvie. TS received an honorarium for presentations at Daiichi Sankyo, NIPRO, Nichi-Iko, Pfizer, Sandoz, Mylan, and Meiji Seika Pharma. BL has been employed by Baxter Healthcare Corporation. However, this funder was not involved in any aspect of this article. The Department of Hospital Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Showa University received a budget from Ono with a contract research project according to the collaborative research agreement. HK owns shares of Meiji Holdings, Alfresa, Shionogi, Chugai, Eisai, Ono, Rohto, Towa, Daiichi Sankyo, Sawai, FUJIFILM, and Nipro. As a potential conflict of interest, in addition, Hospital Pharmaceutics received a research grant from Daiichi Sankyo, Mochida, Shionogi, Ono, Taiho, and Nippon-kayaku. AM has second-degree relatives who are employed and own shares in Terumo Corp. The other authors declare no conflict of interest associated with this manuscript.
: Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study.
: The commercially available JMDC database used in this study contains anonymized processed information based on Japan’s Personal Information Protection Law, and individual informed consent is not required for provision and use. According to the ethical guidelines for clinical research in Japan, research using anonymized processed information is not required to be reviewed by an ethical review committee. Therefore, the use of anonymized data in this study is waived from review by the institutional ethics committee.
: Not applicable.
: Not applicable.
: Not applicable.
: All authors meet the ICMJE recommendations. In particular, HK and KM contributed to the study conception, drafted the manuscript and collected the raw data. BL revised the manuscript. AW, AM, YK, KT, BL, and TS interpreted the data clinically. All authors took part in the discussions during manuscript preparation. All authors have agreed to publish this manuscript. All authors read and approved the final version.