Khatib, Yasser http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4991-5872
Xia, Andrew
Liu, Rui
Naylor, Justine M.
Harris, Ian A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of New South Wales
Article History
Received: 27 March 2022
Accepted: 19 July 2022
First Online: 5 August 2022
Declarations
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: Each author certifies that he or she has no commercial associations (e.g. consultancies, stock ownership, equity interest, patent/licensing arrangements, etc.) that might pose a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article.
: Each author certifies that his or her institution has approved the human protocol for this investigation and that all investigations were conducted in conformity with ethical principles of research, and that informed consent was obtained. This study was approved by our institution’s research ethics committee (Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District Health Research Ethics Committee- Reference: HREC/18/Nepean/37). This study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants in the ACORN registry. De-identified patient data was accessed from ACORN registry with no direct patient contact during the conduct of this study. Further patient consent for this study was not required.