Shenhar-Tsarfaty, Shani
Sherf-Dagan, Shiri http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1225-7551
Berman, Galia
Webb, Muriel
Raziel, Asnat
Keidar, Andrei
Goitein, David
Sakran, Nasser
Zwang, Eti
Shapira, Itzhak
Zeltser, David
Berliner, Shlomo
Rogowski, Ori
Shibolet, Oren
Zelber-Sagi, Shira
Article History
Received: 6 October 2017
Revised: 20 November 2017
Accepted: 27 December 2017
First Online: 3 February 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in this study were approved by the institutional research committees in both participating hospitals and in accordance with the ethical standards of the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The LSG study was pre-registered in the NIH registration website (TRIAL no. NCT01922830).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.