Chertok Shacham, Elena
Kfir, Hila
Schwartz, Naama
Ishay, Avraham
Article History
Received: 16 January 2018
Accepted: 2 October 2018
First Online: 29 October 2018
Authors’ information
: All the authors are from the Emek Medical Center, a community 500-bed teaching hospital in Northern Israel, serving a population of 500,000 inhabitants. ECS, the corresponding author, is an Internal Medicine and Endocrinology Consultant physician, HK is a research assistant, NS is a biostatistician, AI is an Endocrinology Consultant physician and the Director of the Endocrinology Clinic.
: All procedures were in accordance with the institutional ethical standards and the proposal was approved by the Emek Medical Center Research Ethics Committee. Due to retrospective character of the study informed consent was not necessary according to the decision of local IRB.
: Not applicable
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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