Gao, Min http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6196-7088
Wang, Qin
Piernas, Carmen http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7536-922X
Astbury, Nerys M. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9301-7458
Jebb, Susan A.
Holmes, Michael V. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6617-0879
Aveyard, Paul http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-4217
Article History
Received: 1 July 2021
Revised: 26 November 2021
Accepted: 16 December 2021
First Online: 14 January 2022
Competing interests
: PA and SAJ are investigators on a trial of total diet replacement funded by Cambridge Weight Plan. PA spoke at a symposium at the Royal College of General Practitioners conference funded by Novo Nordisk. Both these activities resulted in payments to the University of Oxford but not to the investigators.
: The UK Biobank study was conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki and ethical approval was granted by the North West Multi-Centre Research Ethics Committee (reference number 06/MRE08/65). At recruitment, all participants gave informed consent to participate and be followed-up through data-linkage. Details of the study protocol have been published elsewhere [CitationRef removed].
: The manuscript is an honest, accurate, and transparent account of the study being reported; that no important aspects of the study have been omitted; and that any discrepancies from the study as planned (and, if relevant, registered) have been explained. MG, QW, and CP are the guarantors.