Carlos Souto Maior Borba, Maria Amelia
de Mendonça Batista, Paula
Falcão Almeida, Milena
do Carmo Rego, Maria Aparecida
Brandão Serra, Fernando
Barbour Oliveira, Julio Cesar
Nakajima, Karina
Silva Julian, Guilherme
Amorim, Gilberto
Article History
Received: 27 June 2022
Accepted: 20 September 2023
First Online: 22 September 2023
Competing interests
: GA is a medical scientific consultant and received payment from MSD Brazil; MACSMB, PMB, FBS and MACR are employees and MFA were employee of Merck Sharp Dohme Farmacêutica LTDA., a subsidiary of MERCK & CO., INC., RAHWAY, NJ, U.S.A., who may own stock and/or hold stock options in MERCK & CO., INC., RAHWAY, NJ, U.S.A. GSJ, JCBO, and KN were employees of IQVIA Brazil, which provided outsourcing services for the study design, data analysis and writing the manuscript.