Article History
Received: 22 March 2018
Accepted: 27 November 2018
First Online: 19 December 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This research was approved by the ethics committees of the Institut national de recherche scientifique-Institut Armand-Frappier (INRS-IAF) and McGill University. Ethics approval was also received from the following Montreal-area hospitals in which subjects were recruited: Montreal Chest Hospital Centre, Centre Hospitalier de Verdun, Cité de la santé, Hôpital Général Fleury, Hôtel Dieu de Montréal, Hôpital Jean-Talon, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Hôpital Notre Dame, Hôpital Sacré-Coeur, Hôpital St-Luc, Jewish General Hospital, Lakeshore Hospital, Montreal General Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Reddy Memorial Hospital, Royal Victoria Hospital, Hôpital Santa Cabrini, Hôpital Ste. Jeanne-d’Arc and St Mary’s Hospital. All participants provided written informed consent.
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