Lee, Mi Jung
Romero, Sergio
Velozo, Craig A.
Gruber-Baldini, Ann L.
Shulman, Lisa M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (1U01AR057967-01)
Article History
Accepted: 14 January 2019
First Online: 26 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study was approved by the Institutional review boards (IRB) of the Medical University of South Carolina (#Pro00033397), the University of Florida (#261–2010), and the University of Maryland (#HP-000432550). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: All participants were treated and reimbursed as consultants. Therefore, informed consent was not required.