Klein, Hadar
Pachter, Dafna
Goldberg Toren, Dana Tamar
Kamer, Omer
Alufer, Liav
Ebstein Karamani, Noa
Chassidim, Yoash
Shelef, Ilan
Rudich, Assaf
Yoel, Uri
Ben-Arie, Gal
Zelicha, Hila
Yaskolka Meir, Anat
Tsaban, Gal
Bartal, Carmi
Blüher, Matthias
Stumvoll, Michael
Ceglarek, Uta
Isermann, Berend
Qi, Lu
Stampfer, Meir J.
Hu, Frank B.
Shai, Iris
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC-3105/1 – 533765739)
Article History
Received: 23 August 2025
Accepted: 21 January 2026
First Online: 30 January 2026
Declarations
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: The Soroka University Medical Centre Medical Ethics Board and the Institutional Review Board approved the study protocols for the CENTRAL (0239-11-SOR) and DIRECT-PLUS (0280-16-SOR) trials, and the FIT follow-up (0373-21-SOR). All participants provided written informed consent and received no financial compensation.
: Not applicable.
: M.B. received honoraria as a consultant and speaker from Amgen, Astra-Zeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Daiichi-Sankyo, Lilly, Novo Nordisk, Novartis, and Sanofi. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.