Ooi, Geraldine J. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4540-408X
Burton, Paul R.
Bayliss, Jacqueline
Raajendiran, Arthe
Earnest, Arul
Laurie, Cheryl
Kemp, William W.
McLean, Catriona A.
Roberts, Stuart K.
Watt, Matthew J.
Brown, Wendy A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Allergan
Apollo Endosurgery
Applied Medical
Commonwealth of Australia
Covidien
Johnson and Johnson
Gore
Merck Sharpe and Dohme
Novo Nordisk
National Health and Medical Research Council
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Article History
First Online: 18 September 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: Ethics approval was obtained (Alfred (195/15), Avenue (190) and Cabrini (09-31-08-15) Human Research Ethics Committees).
: GJO, PRB, CL and WAB report being affiliated with the Centre for Obesity Research and Education. The Centre has received funding for research purposes from Allergan and Apollo Endosurgery, the manufacturers of the LapBand™. The grant is not tied to any specific research project, and neither Allergan nor Apollo Endosurgery have control of the protocol, analysis and reporting of any studies. The Centre also receives a grant from Applied Medical towards educational programs.WB reports financial support for a bariatric surgery registry from the Commonwealth of Australia, Apollo Endosurgery, Covidien, Johnson and Johnson, Gore and Applied Medical. Since initial submission of this paper, she has also received a speaker’s honorarium from Merck Sharpe and Dohme and a speaker’s honorarium and fees from participation in a scientific advisory board from Novo Nordisk. The Bariatric Registry and the honorariums are outside of the submitted work.GJO reports scholarships from the NHMRC and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.MJW is supported by a Senior Research Fellowship from the NHMRC (APP1077703).The remaining authors have no other disclosures or conflict of interest.
: 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.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.