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Authors
Hüsing, Anika
Quante, Anne S.
Chang-Claude, Jenny
Aleksandrova, Krasimira
Kaaks, Rudolf
Pfeiffer, Ruth M. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7791-2698
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
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Article History
Received: 5 August 2019
Accepted: 31 January 2020
First Online: 6 April 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: All participants in the EPIC and DEGS studies provided written informed consent. The EPIC study was approved by ethics committees at both study centers (Potsdam: Ethics Committee of the Medical Association of the State of Brandenburg; Heidelberg: Ethics Committee of the Heidelberg University Hospital). The Ethics Committee of Charité Hospital Berlin approved of the DEGS-Study, and the federal commissioner for data protection held no objections.
