Alos-Rullan, Victor http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5251-5573
Article History
Received: 7 August 2018
Accepted: 21 August 2019
First Online: 27 August 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: No subject or persons identifiers are included in NHANES and my study was exempted by Temple university Institutional Review Board (IRB). Statement from the university IRB: “Your activity is not considered human subjects research because you are not using private identifiable information. Consequently, an IRB application is not required.”The NHANES protocol was approved by the National Center for Health Statistics Research Ethics Review Board and all participants provided informed consent.Written inform consent forms are collected for specimen storage and continuing studies including use of DNA. ExternalRef removed
: My manuscript does not contain any individual person’s data in any form. Institutional Review Board (IRB) exempted one of my studies with the same data sets.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.