Pálinkás, Anita
Sándor, János
Papp, Magor
Kőrösi, László
Falusi, Zsófia
Pál, László
Bélteczki, Zsuzsanna
Rihmer, Zoltán
Döme, Péter
Funding for this research was provided by:
Swiss Contribution Programme (SH/8/1)
European Union and the European Regional Development Fund (GINOP-2.3.2-15-2016-00005)
Article History
Received: 18 October 2017
Accepted: 6 June 2018
First Online: 15 June 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Hungarian National Scientific Council on Health (TUKEB 16676-3/2016/EKU, 0361/16). All enrolled patients signed an informed consent form contributing to the storage and analysis of their data before the data collection of health check started. Furthermore, the legal staff of the National Institute of Health Insurance Fund Management checked each signed informed consent before issuing the permission for record linkage. The health insurance numbers of the patients were handled exclusively on computers of and within the National Institute of Health Insurance Fund Management by this institution’s own staff members dedicated to handling these sensitive data as their usual job. Nobody else from the study personnel obtained permission to handle these data.
: ZR has in the past received speakers’ bureau honoraria, advisory board funding or travel support from AstraZeneca, Janssen, Lundbeck, Lilly, Servier-EGIS, Richter and TEVA-Biogal. The other authors report no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest. The authors declare that the presented epidemiological research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.