Russell, Mark D. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8171-7772
Barrick, Thomas R.
Howe, Franklyn A.
Sofat, Nidhi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Rosetrees Trust (M11-F1)
National Institute for Health Research (ACF-2015-16-002)
Article History
Received: 5 March 2018
Accepted: 13 June 2018
First Online: 23 June 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors 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. All trial protocols were approved by the study sponsor, St George’s, University of London and the MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency), UK.
: Ethical approval for this study was provided by the London-Surrey Borders ethics committee, approval number 12/LO/0047.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in this study. Emergency code breaks for blinding were administered independently by staff in the St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Clinical Trials Pharmacy.