Lim, Gillian
Johari, Yazmin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1531-9749
Ooi, Geraldine
Playfair, Julie
Laurie, Cheryl
Hebbard, Geoffrey
Brown, Wendy
Burton, Paul
Article History
Received: 25 July 2020
Revised: 15 November 2020
Accepted: 30 November 2020
First Online: 25 January 2021
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Professor Wendy Brown has received grants from Johnson and Johnson, grants from Medtronic, grants from GORE, personal fees from GORE, grants from Applied Medical, grants from Apollo Endosurgery, grants and personal fees from Novo Nordisk, and personal fees from Merck Sharpe and Dohme, all of which are outside the submitted work.The remaining authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Ethics approval was obtained from the Alfred Human Research and Ethics Committee (HREC) no. 380/16 and the Avenue Hospital HREC no. 236.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.