Baskal, Svetlana
Kaiser, Annette
Mels, Catharina
Kruger, Ruan
Tsikas, Dimitrios http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6320-0956
Funding for this research was provided by:
South African National Research Foundation (Grant ID: 99055)
South Africa Sugar Association (Grant ID: 240)
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH)
Article History
Received: 5 January 2022
Accepted: 15 February 2022
First Online: 3 March 2022
Declarations
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: A part of the study project is supported by grants from the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) (Grant ID: 99055) and the South Africa Sugar Association (SASA) (Grant ID: 240). Any opinion, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and therefore the NRF does not accept any liability in regard thereto. The authors declare no competing financial interest.
: Participants were fully informed about the objectives of both studies (written informed consent and assent were obtained from all participants included in the study). All procedures performed in the study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee (Health Research Ethics Committee of the North-West University; ASOS: NWU-00007-15-A1) and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards (Carlson et al. CitationRef removed).