Nikiforuk, Aidan M.
Karim, Mohammad Ehsanul
Patrick, David M.
Jassem, Agatha N.
Article History
Received: 25 November 2020
Accepted: 9 June 2021
First Online: 13 July 2021
Declarations
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: The University of British Columbia’s Policy 89, item 7.10.3 on studies involving human participants and Article 2.2 of the Tri-Council Policy Statement on Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans, provide ethical support of the study. As described in both policies research ethics board approval is not required for studies involving publicly available data such as that of NHANES. NHANES is a publicly available dataset administered by the National Center for Health Statistics, written informed consent was provided by all participants to the study investigators. The authors adhered to ethical principles, described in the declaration of Helsinki, and followed ethical guidelines or regulations provided by the University of British Columbia.
: Not applicable, as all presented data is de-identified.
: The authors have no competing interests.