Meirelles, Osorio
Arnette, Anthony
Guðnason, Vilmundur
Launer, Lenore J. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3238-7612
Article History
Received: 6 February 2023
Accepted: 13 November 2023
First Online: 5 January 2024
Declarations
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: OM, AA, VG and LJL have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose. The authors declare that beyond the listed sources of funding, no other support was received during preparation of this manuscript.
: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. The pooled analysis was performed at the Intramural Research Program, NIA, NIH. This is an observational study. The IRB governing NIH Intramural Research #17-NIA-00098 has confirmed no ethical approval is required. The Cardiovascular Health Study, Atherosclerosis Risk in the Communities Study, Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults were each approved by local institutional review boards (IRBs) of individual study sites. The Age Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik Study was approved by the Icelandic National Bioethics Committee (VSN 00-063), the Icelandic Data Protection Authority, and the institutional review board of the U.S. National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health (IRB Project #2003–059). Participants in each cohort have provided informed consent.