Rambukwella, Roshan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7560-6865
Westbury, Leo D. http://orcid.org/0009-0008-5853-8096
Pearse, Camille http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3486-8353
Ward, Kate A. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7034-6750
Cooper, Cyrus http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3510-0709
Dennison, Elaine M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3048-4961
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medical Research Council (MRC_MC_UP_A620_1014, MC_PC_21003, MC_PC_21001)
Article History
Received: 31 July 2023
Accepted: 25 August 2023
First Online: 13 September 2023
Declarations
:
: EMD declares consultancy and speaker fees from Pfizer, UCB and Lilly. CC has received lecture fees and honoraria from Amgen, Danone, Eli Lilly, GSK, Kyowa Kirin, Medtronic, Merck, Nestlé, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, Servier, Shire, Takeda and UCB outside of the submitted work. RR, LDW, KAW and CP declare no conflicts 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. All study participants provided written informed consent for the investigations they underwent and for researchers to access their medical records in the future and ethical approval was obtained from the Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Local Research Ethics Committee. Permission to obtain a HES extract for HCS participants was granted by the Ethics and Confidentiality Committee of the National Information Governance Board and NHS Digital.