Hashimoto, Hiroyuki http://orcid.org/0009-0009-6497-9864
Imai, Shinobu http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1784-5133
Yamashita, Ryoka
Kiyomi, Anna http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3802-0210
Sugiura, Munetoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5726-0741
Article History
Accepted: 12 October 2023
First Online: 28 November 2023
Declarations
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: This research did not receive any specific grants from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
: Hiroyuki Hashimoto is an employee of Pfizer R&D Japan and shareholder of Pfizer Inc. The remaining authors report no other conflicts of interest associated with this study.
: This study was conducted on the basis of a data use agreement with the database vendor. Disclosure to third parties is not permissible.
: The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Review Board of our university (approval number: human medical-2020-013). 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 Declaration of Helsinki of 1964 and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: The ethics review board of our university waived the need for informed consent because of the study design, which involved a secondary analysis of a claims database and did not directly involve the participants (in designing the research question, selecting the outcome measures, and interpreting and writing the results of this study). The participants were given the opportunity to opt out, which was announced on the study website.
: Not applicable.
: See supplemental information.
: Hiroyuki Hashimoto and Ryoka Yamashit were responsible for conceptualization, methodology, data curation, writing: original draft preparation, visualization, and investigation; Shinobu Imai for conceptualization, methodology, software, validation, and writing: reviewing and editing; Anna Kiyomi for conceptualization, methodology, and writing: reviewing and editing; and Munetoshi Sugiura for conceptualization, methodology, writing: reviewing and editing, and supervision. All authors read and approved the final version.