Johar, Hamimatunnisa http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8713-4121
Atasoy, Seryan
Beutel, Manfred
Braehler, Elmar
Schomerus, Georg
Binder, Harald
Peters, Annette
Zöller, Daniela
Fleischer, Toni
Otten, Danielle
Kampling, Hana
Kruse, Johannes
Ladwig, Karl-Heinz
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Nr.01GL1718A)
Universitätsklinikum Gießen und Marburg GmbH
Article History
Accepted: 15 July 2023
First Online: 27 July 2023
Declarations
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: The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975. All three cohort studies included in the GESA consortium were approved by ethic committees.GHS: The GHS and its procedure were approved by the ethics committee of the Statutory Board of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (approval at 22.3.2007, latest update 20.10.2015, reference no. 837.020.07). Participation was voluntary and written informed consent was obtained from each subject upon entry into the study.KORA: All study methods were approved by the ethics committee of the Bavarian Chamber of Physicians, Munich (F4 and FF4: reference no. 06068).SHIP: This institutional ethics committee of the University Medicine Greifswald evaluated the study, design and instruments and testified its compliance with ethical requirements (reference no. BB 39/08).
: The authors declare no competing interests.