Wang, Jianhua
Brown, Craig
Shi, Ce
Townsend, Justin
Gameiro, Giovana Rosa
Wang, Peng
Jiang, Hong
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Eye Institute (P30 EY014801)
Research to Prevent Blindness (Bascom Palmer Eye Institute)
Article History
Received: 15 March 2019
Accepted: 1 July 2019
First Online: 22 July 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All research methods are by the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the ethics committee board of the University of Miami. All subjects at the University of Miami were recruited voluntarily and were informed about the purposes, methods, and the potential risks of the study. All cases from the clinical practice were obtained by retrospective chart review. Anonymized data was obtained from the medical records. A signed consent form was obtained from each person.
: All study subjects gave informant consent and signed the informed consent form.
: Dr. Brown holds an ownership interest in Global Healthcare Focus, a small research and development company concerned with developing nutritional products to improve health. Other authors have no competing interests.