Liu, Minghao
Williams, John
Kuo, Jennifer
Lee, James A.
Silverberg, Shonni J.
Walker, Msarcella D. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7205-6527
Funding for this research was provided by:
Endocrine Fellows Foundation (n/a)
Article History
Received: 5 June 2019
Accepted: 23 September 2019
First Online: 3 October 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no 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.
: The Columbia University Medical Center Institutional Review Board granted a waiver of consent (45 CFR 46.116) for this study as this was a retrospective chart review of historical patients, the study involved no more than minimal risk to participants, the waiver did not adversely affect the rights and welfare of the subjects, and the research could not practicably be carried out without the waiver.