Kouzmina, Ekaterina
Deghan, Shaidah
Robertson, David
Reimer, Cara
Zevin, Boris http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2450-1865
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bariatric Surgery Academic Excellence Fund
Article History
Received: 5 October 2022
Revised: 11 May 2023
Accepted: 12 May 2023
First Online: 18 May 2023
Declarations
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: Ethical approval was obtained from our Health Sciences and Affiliated Teaching Hospitals Research Ethics Board (SURG-452–18). 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. For this type of study formal consent is not required.
: Informed Consent does not apply.
: Ekaterina Kouzmina, Shaidah Deghan, David Robertson, Cara Reimer, and Boris Zevin have no conflict of interest to declare. This study was supported by the Bariatric Surgery Academic Excellence Fund, Department of Surgery, Queen’s University.
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