Mohanty, Salini
Podmore, Bélène
Cuñado Moral, Ana
Matthews, Ian
Sarpong, Eric
Lacetera, Alessandra
Qizilbash, Nawab
Article History
Received: 8 August 2022
Accepted: 15 December 2022
First Online: 23 January 2023
Declarations
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: The CPRD is an ongoing primary care database of anonymized medical records from general practitioners, with coverage of over 19 million patients from 937 practices in the UK. The HES APC database includes all inpatient admissions to NHS hospitals in England since 1997. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations and the protocol (protocol ID: 20_000260) was approved by the CPRD Independent Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC).
: Not applicable.
: This research was sponsored and funded by Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA. OXON Epidemiology Ltd., Epidemiology & Statistics, Madrid, Spain, an independent contract research organization, was contracted to design and conduct the study. Salini Mohanty, Ian Mathews and Eric Sarpong are employees of Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, and may own stock and/or hold stock options in Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA.