Fountoulakis, Nikolaos
Wijesuriya, Mahen
Gnudi, Luigi
Gulliford, Martin
Karalliedde, Janaka
Funding for this research was provided by:
BRIDGES Grant from the International Diabetes Federation and a grant awarded by the Diabetes Association of Sri Lanka (BRIDGES Grant from the International Diabetes Federation and a grant awarded by the Diabetes Association of Sri Lanka)
Article History
Received: 12 April 2019
Accepted: 26 July 2019
First Online: 19 September 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All participants provided written informed consent and the study was given ethical approval from the Sri Lanka Medical Association Ethical Review Committee (ERC 07–010). Permission from the Ministry of Education was obtained for this study, which was conducted under the Good Clinical Practice Guidelines and according to the principles expressed in the Declaration of Helsinki for clinical research.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.