∗Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, Department of General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
†Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
‡Cleveland Clinic Coordinating Center for Clinical Research, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
§Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
¶Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA.
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A.A. reported receiving grants from Medtronic. S.A.B. reported receiving grants from Medtronic and GI Windows. P.R.S. reported receiving grants from Medtronic, Ethicon, and Pacira and receiving personal fees from Medtronic, GI Dynamics, WL Gore and Associates, Becton Dickinson Surgical, and Global Academy for Medical Education. M.W.K. reported receiving grants from Medtronic and Novo Nordisk. S.E.N. reported receiving a grant from Medtronic for the current study and receiving research support from Amgen, AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Cerenis, Eli Lilly, Esperion Therapeutics, Novo-Nordisk, The Medicines Company, Orexigen, Pfizer, and Takeda and consulting for a number of pharmaceutical companies without financial compensation (all honoraria, consulting fees, or any other payments from any for-profit entity are paid directly to charity, so neither income nor any tax deduction is received). No other disclosures were reported.
The authors report no conflicts of interest.
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