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Article History

Received: 20 October 2017

Accepted: 8 March 2018

First Online: 3 April 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. These recruitment, consent, and data protection procedures were approved by the Human Subjects Committees of the Uniformed Services University Institutional Review Board, the Institutional Review Boards (IRBMED) at the University of Michigan (the organization collecting the data), the Harvard Longwood Medical Area Office of Human Research Administration, and the University of California San Diego Human Research Protections Program. All study participants gave written informed consent.

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: Stein has been a consultant for Healthcare Management Technologies and had research support for pharmacological imaging studies from Janssen. In the past 3 years, Dr. Kessler received support for his epidemiological studies from Sanofi Aventis; was a consultant for Johnson & Johnson Wellness and Prevention, Sage Pharmaceuticals, Shire, and Takeda; and served on an advisory board for the Johnson & Johnson Services Inc. Lake Nona Life Project. Kessler is a co-owner of DataStat, Inc., a market research firm that carries out healthcare research. The remaining authors report no conflict of interest.

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