Ogiso, Masataka
Yamaguchi, Junichi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0967-0978
Otsuki, Hisao
Arashi, Hiroyuki
Sekiguchi, Haruki
Ogawa, Hiroshi
Hagiwara, Nobuhisa
Article History
Received: 22 January 2021
Accepted: 2 April 2021
First Online: 11 April 2021
Declarations
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: All members of the HIJ-PROPER study group report receiving research support to perform clinical trials through the Japan Research Promotion Society for Cardiovascular Diseases, which is sponsored by Abbott Vascular Japan Co., Ltd., AstraZeneca K.K., Bayer Yakuhin, Ltd., Boston Scientific Corporation, Bristol-Myers K.K., Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited, Kowa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., MSD K.K., Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim Co., Ltd., Novartis Pharma K.K., Pfizer Japan Inc., Sanofi K.K., and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited. N. Hagiwara reports that he has received honoraria from Bristol-Myers K.K. and Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim Co., Ltd., and grants from Astellas Pharma Inc., Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited, Eisai Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Shionogi & Co., Ltd., and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited. J. Yamaguchi and H. Otsuki belong to the division (Clinical Research division for Cardiovascular Catheter Intervention) financially maintained by the donation from Abbott Vascular, Boston Scientific, Medtronic Terumo. All authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose. The HIJ-PROPER Steering Committee had full access to all data in the study and had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants followed 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. The present study was approved by the institutional review board of the Tokyo Women’s Medical University (Reference number: 1741).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.