Bilger, Marcel http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2872-6597
Shah, Mitesh
Tan, Ngiap Chuan
Tan, Cynthia Y. L.
Bundoc, Filipinas G.
Bairavi, Joann
Finkelstein, Eric A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National University of Singapore (NIHA-2013-1-005)
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Article History
Accepted: 28 November 2020
First Online: 25 January 2021
Declarations
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: This study was funded by the National University of Singapore (NUS) Initiative to Improve Health in Asia (NIHA-2013-1-005). The open-access fee for the publication of this article is funded by Duke-NUS Medical School.
: The authors do not have any conflicts of interest to declare.
: The study was approved by the SingHealth Centralised Institutional Review Board E (Ref. Numbers 2013/830/E & 2018/2162) and conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: All authors have reviewed and approved the manuscript and consent to its publication.
: Access to de-identified data will be granted to entities with an IRB approval for use that is consistent with Singapore’s data privacy laws and the study research protocol.
: The code can be made available upon request for non-commercial use.
: The ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier is NCT02224417. The trial was registered 22 August 2014.
: The protocol is available fromExternalRef removed.
: MB and EAF conceived and designed the study, conducted the analysis and interpretation of the data, and led the manuscript preparation. MS and NCT contributed to the conception and design of the study and helped oversee recruitment, data acquisition, and implementation on site. CYLT assisted with overseeing recruitment and the implementation of the study on site. FGB contributed to the analysis and interpretation of data and helped draft and finalize the manuscript. JB helped amend the study protocol, coordinate the study, collect data, and draft and finalize the manuscript. All authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript.