Lobo, Conceição
Santos, Torcato
Marques, Inês P.
Madeira, Maria H. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6282-3553
Santos, Ana Rita http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3761-3292
Figueira, João
Cunha-Vaz, José
Article History
Received: 7 June 2021
Revised: 14 December 2021
Accepted: 13 January 2022
First Online: 22 January 2022
Institutional review board statement
: The tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki were followed, and approval was obtained from the AIBILI’s Ethics Committee for Health with the number CEC/007/16 (PROGRESS), NCT 04650165.
: CL, TS, IPM, MHM and ARS declare no conflicts of interest. JF reports being a member of Advisory Boards for Alimera, Allergan, Bayer, Bhoeringer, and Novartis. JC-V reports grants from Carl Zeiss Meditec and is a consultant for Alimera Sciences, Allergan, Bayer, Gene Signal, Novartis, Pfizer, Precision Ocular Ltd., Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, Vifor Pharma, and Carl Zeiss Meditec. The funders had no role in the design or writing of the manuscript.