Westbury, Leo D. https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5853-8096
Rambukwella, Roshan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7560-6865
Pearse, Camille https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3486-8353
Ward, Kate A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7034-6750
Cooper, Cyrus https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3510-0709
Dennison, Elaine M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3048-4961
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medical Research Council (MC_PC_21003; MC_PC_21001)
Article History
Received: 12 March 2024
Accepted: 26 October 2024
First Online: 14 November 2024
Declarations
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: 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. Ethical approval for the baseline Hertfordshire Cohort Study was obtained from the Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Local Research Ethics Committee. Permission to obtain a HES extract for HCS participants from 01/04/1998 to 31/12/2018 was granted by the Ethics and Confidentiality Committee of the National Information Governance Board and NHS Digital.
: All study participants provided written informed consent for the investigations they underwent and for researchers to access their medical records in the future.
: EMD declares consultancy and speaker fees from Pfizer, UCB and Lilly. The remaining authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.