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Professor Guillermo E Umpierrez; geumpie@emory.edu
RLC and GEU wrote the initial draft of the manuscript. ME, RLC, EM, ZEZ, and BM served either as study coordinators screening and randomizing research candidates, collecting data or as clinical providers managing patients daily, including weekends, ensuring successful completion of the study protocol. RJG, PV, TI, GDO'K, reviewed and edited the study proposal and manuscript. LP analyzed the data. GEU wrote the initial research proposal, is the guarantor of this work and, as such, 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.
We thank the Optomed Aurora Company for the training and use of their retinal camera. We also thank AEYE Health for their online diagnostic platform. These companies had no role in study design, data collection, data interpretation, or manuscript writing.
ME, RLC, EM, ZEZ, BM, GDO'K, JN, RJG, PV, LP, and GEU report no conflicts of interest relevant to this article. PV and GEU are editorial board members of BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care.
The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
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