*Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA;
†Kaiser Permanente Washington, Seattle, WA;
‡Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA;
§Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA; and
¶Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA.
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Supported by NIH/NIDDK R01DK105960-01. The sponsor did not play a role in the collection, management, analysis or interpretation of data, the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript, or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
Data Access, Responsibility, and Analysis: Eric Johnson, David Arterburn, and Sebastien Haneuse had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
Funding: NIH-NIDDK R01DK105960-01
Conflicts of interest Statement: AC had a research grant from Allurion inc; DA has grants from NIH and PCORI and travel paid by IFSO Latin America Chapter and World Congress on Interventional Therapy for Diabetes; KC has funding for research from NIDDK, NHLBI, NIMH, and FDA and is paid a stipend for reviewing grants for NIH. (outside of the submitted work)
No authors have spouses, partners, or children that have financial relationships that may be relevant to the submitted work.
SH, MKT, DF, JC, RL, PC, SS, GG, PY, AG, EJ, LH, JZ, SU, and BT have nothing to declare.
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