Johnson, Karen C.
Anderson, Andrea
Beavers, Kristen M.
Crandall, Carolyn J.
Hazuda, Helen P.
Lewis, Cora E.
Lipkin, Edward
Schwartz, Ann V.
Pi-Sunyer, F. X.
Zhao, Qi
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Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (DK57136, DK57149, DK56990, DK57177, DK57171, DK57151, DK57182, DK57131, DK57002, DK57078, DK57154, DK57178, DK57219, DK57008, DK57135, DK56992)
National Institute on Aging (AG058571)
Article History
Received: 22 December 2022
Accepted: 3 July 2023
First Online: 14 July 2023
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in the Look AHEAD study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional 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.
: The authors have disclosed the following financial and non-financial competing interests and funding.Karen C. Johnson, MD, MPH – The author declares that they have no conflict of interest.Andrea Anderson, MS—The author declares that they have no conflict of interest.Kristen M. Beavers, PhD—The author declares that they have no conflict of interest.Carolyn J. Crandall, MD, MS, CCD—The author declares that they have no conflict of interest.Helen P. Hazuda, PhD—The author declares that they have no conflict of interest.Cora E. Lewis, MD, MSPH – Reports serving on a Data Safety Monitoring Board for Rush University Medical Center.Edward Lipkin MD, PhD—The author declares that they have no conflict of interest.Ann V. Schwartz, PhD, MPH—The author declares that they have no conflict of interest.F.X. Pi-Sunyer, MD—The author declares that they have no conflict of interest.Qi Zhao, MD, PhD <b>–</b> The author declares that they have no conflict of interest.
: The Look AHEAD study was approved by the appropriate institutional research ethics committees and was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.