Gómez-Acebo, Inés
Dierssen-Sotos, Trinidad
Palazuelos-Calderón, Camilo
Pérez-Gómez, Beatriz
Amiano, Pilar
Guevara, Marcela
Molina, Antonio J.
Domingo, Laia
Fernández-Ortiz, María
Moreno, Victor
Alguacil, Juan
Fernández-Tardón, Guillermo
Ibáñez, Josefa
Marcos-Gragera, Rafael
Diaz-Santos, Marian
Alonso, M. Henar
Alonso-Molero, Jessica
Castaño-Vinyals, Gemma
Palomo, Andrés García
Ardanaz, Eva
Molinuevo, Amaia
Aragonés, Nuria
Kogevinas, Manolis
Pollán, Marina
Llorca, Javier
Funding for this research was provided by:
Instituto de Salud Carlos III (grants PI08/1770, PI08/0533, PI08/1359, PI09/00773, PI09/01286, PI09/01286, PI09/01903, PI09/02078, PI09/02078, PI09/01662, PI11/01403, PI11/01889, PI11/00226, PI11/01810, PI11/02213, PI12/00488, PI12/00265, PI12/01270, PI12/00715, PI12/00150, PI14/01219, PI14/00613, and PI15/00069)
Article History
Received: 13 December 2019
Accepted: 18 March 2020
First Online: 30 April 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: The protocol of MCC-Spain was approved by the Ethics committees of the participating institutions [CitationRef removed] At recruitment, all participants were informed about the study objectives and signed an informed consent, which also included the authorization for following up the patient via medical records or phone calls; only participants agreeing in being followed up were included in the inception cohorts. Confidentiality of data is secured by removing personal identifiers in the datasets. The database was registered in the Spanish Agency for Data Protection, number 2102672171. Permission to use the study database will be granted to researchers outside the study group after revision and approval of each request by the Steering Committee.