van Nieuwenhuizen, Benjamin
Zafarmand, Mohammad Hadi
Beune, Erik
Meeks, Karlijn
Aikins, Ama de-Graft
Addo, Juliet
Owusu-Dabo, Ellis
Mockenhaupt, Frank P.
Bahendeka, Silver
Schulze, Matthias B.
Danquah, Ina
Spranger, Joachim
Klipstein-Grobusch, Kerstin
Appiah, Lambert Tetteh
Smeeth, Liam
Stronks, Karien
Agyemang, Charles
Funding for this research was provided by:
Seventh Framework Programme (278901)
Wellcome Trust (WT082178)
Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislaufforschung
Berliner Institut fur Gesundheitsforschung
Article History
Received: 18 January 2018
Accepted: 28 March 2018
First Online: 17 April 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: None.
: Ethical approval of the study protocols has been requested at all sites from the respective ethics committees in Ghana (School of Medical Sciences/Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Committee on Human Research, Publication & Ethical Review Board), the Netherlands (Institutional Review Board of the AMC, University of Amsterdam), Germany (Ethics Committee of Charite-Universitätsmedizin Berlin) and the UK (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Research Ethics Committee) before data collection began in each country.
: The procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national).
: All participants provided written informed consent.