Coulman, Karen D. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0510-4290
Chalmers, Katy
Blazeby, Jane
Dixon, John
Kow, Lilian
Liem, Ronald
Pournaras, Dimitri J.
Ottosson, Johan
Welbourn, Richard
Brown, Wendy
Avery, Kerry
Funding for this research was provided by:
International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders
Royal College of Surgeons of England Bristol Surgical Trials Centre
NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre (BRC-1215-20011)
Health Education England/National Institute for Health Research Clinical Lectureship (ICA-CL-2018-04-ST2-008)
Article History
Received: 30 November 2022
Revised: 1 March 2023
Accepted: 7 March 2023
First Online: 24 March 2023
Declarations
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: 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.
: KCo, KCh, JB, JD, LK, RL, RW, and KA have no conflicts of interest. DJP has been funded by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He receives consulting fees from Johnson and Johnson, and payments for lectures, presentations, and educational events from Johnson and Johnson, Medtronic, and Novo Nordisk. JO receives consulting fees for participating in advisory boards for Johnson & Johnson and Vifor Pharma. WB received lecture, presentations, speakers’ bureaus, manuscript writing, or educational events fees for Merck Sharpe and Dohme, Novo Nordisk, and Gore; research grants from Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, Gore, Applied Medical, Novo Nordisk, and Commonwealth Government of Australia; conference travel fees from Novo Nordisk.