Welbourn, Richard http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8228-526X
Hollyman, Marianne http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5972-0454
Kinsman, Robin
Dixon, John
Cohen, Ricardo
Morton, John
Ghaferi, Amir
Higa, Kelvin
Ottosson, Johan
Pattou, Francois
Al-Sabah, Salman
Anvari, Merhan
Himpens, Jacques
Liem, Ronald
Våge, Villy
Walton, Peter
Brown, Wendy
Kow, Lilian
Article History
Received: 22 October 2020
Revised: 3 February 2021
Accepted: 9 February 2021
First Online: 27 February 2021
Declarations
: This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors. For this type of study, formal consent was not required. A certificate of exemption from NHS Research Ethics Committee (REC) approval for the study was obtained from the UK Human Research Authority decision tools available on the website ExternalRef removed.
: Dr Welbourn reports personal fees from Novo Nordisk, outside the submitted work.Drs Kinsman and Walton report grants from IFSO, outside the submitted work.Dr Dixon reports personal fees from NHMRC, during the conduct of the study; personal fees from Reshape, personal fees from Bariatric Advantage, personal fees from Novo Nordisk, personal fees from Nestle Health Science, personal fees from Johnson & Johnson, and personal feed from I-Nova, outside the submitted work.Dr Cohen reports personal fees from GI Dynamics, grants from Johnson & Johnson Medical, Brazil, outside the submitted work.Dr Ottosson reports consultancy fees from Johnson & Johnson and Vifor Pharma, outside the submitted work.Dr Anvari reports consultancy fees from Johnson & Johnson, outside the submitted work.Dr Himpens reports personal fees from Ethicon, personal fees from Medtronic, outside the submitted work.Dr Brown reports grants from Johnson and Johnson, grants from Medtronic, grants from GORE, personal fees from GORE, grants from Applied Medical, grants from Apollo Endosurgery, grants and personal fees from Novo Nordisk, personal fees from Merck Sharpe and Dohme, outside the submitted work; and I am a bariatric surgeon so earn my living from performing these procedures.Drs Hollyman, Morton, Ghaferi, Higa, Pattou, Al-Sabah, Liem, Våge, Kow have nothing to disclose.