Funding for this research was provided by:
Novartis Pharma KK
Article History
Received: 24 March 2020
Accepted: 5 June 2020
First Online: 10 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Institutional Ethical Review Board of the Specified Nonprofit Organization clinical research promotion network Japan (CR-IRB-0052).This study acquired secondary data from a medical claims database, written informed consent from patients was not required.
: Not applicable.
: KK has no financial interest to disclose; EC is employee of Novartis Pharma K.K; SK and PSY are employees of Novartis.