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Footnotes
Acknowledgement of Source of Funding
(Abu-Helalah M, Law MR, Bestwick JP, Monson JP, Wald NJ. J Med Screen 2010;
In this paper acknowledgement of financial support for the study was inadvertently overlooked. The work was supported by The BUPA Foundation (Grant number TBF33a/05). The authors apologize for the oversight, which has been corrected in the electronic version of the paper.