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The above article, published online on 20 January 2020 in Wiley Online Library (www.wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief Rosemary Ekong, the authors, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd./University College London. The retraction has been agreed because there are inconsistencies in Figures 1 and 5 that render the data difficult to interpret and the original data could not be provided to support the conclusions. The authors asked to retract the manuscript because their confidence in the results has been undermined by these inconsistencies.