Budd, Jayne http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2076-7378
Stacey, Tomasina
Martin, Bill
Roberts, Devender
Heazell, Alexander E. P.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Action Medical Research (GN2156)
Article History
Received: 15 March 2018
Accepted: 27 July 2018
First Online: 6 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Greater Manchester Central Ethics Committee Reference 13/NW/0874.A favourable opinion was given by the committee for the study on 20/01/2014, with additional approval being given to the nested study on 24/07/2015. The ethics committee approved verbal consent from participants.
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