Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5981665 Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2016 9 Pages PDF
Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the JACC Editor-in-Chief, its Editorial Board, and the JACC Ethics Board for the following reasons:1.In the title and multiple times in the article, the study is referred to as a "randomized trial" but deviation from a random allocation of subjects to treatments across sites and the imbalance introduced by a non-random “randomization error” were not disclosed in the manuscript.2.Registration with ClinicalTrials.gov was not completed before patient enrollment began.

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