Acknowledgments
We thank the collaborating members of the Executive Committee of ICAP for reading this manuscript and giving their input. These members in addition to the authors, were as follows: Orlando Gabriel Carballo, Argentina; Paulo Luiz Carvalho Francescantonio, Brazil; Ignacio Garcia-De La Torre, Mexico; Tsuneyo Mimori, Japan.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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