Funding for this research was provided by:
Royal Osteoporosis Society (191)
Article History
Received: 14 May 2024
Accepted: 5 September 2024
First Online: 28 September 2024
Declarations
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: Eunji Kim, Amelia Elizabeth Moore, Dwight Dulnoan, Geeta n Hampson have no competing interests to declare.
: Ethical approval for the initial study was obtained from the South East London Research and Ethics Committee, UK. All patients gave informed consent and agreed that their aliquoted samples which were not used in the initial study could be stored and used in future ethically approved studies. Ethical approval for using the stored biological samples was obtained from the Human Research Authority (HRA) UK and the Health and Care Research Committee, Wales, UK. The current study was carried out in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.