Funding for this research was provided by:
South African Medical Research Council
Society for Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes in South Africa and the University of Pretoria
Article History
First Online: 19 March 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Carmen Pheiffer, Stephanie Dias, Paul Rheeder, and Sumaiya Adam declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: This work was funded by the South African Medical Research Council (C. Pheiffer) and the Society for Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes in South Africa and the University of Pretoria (S. Adam).
: 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.