Cheng, L.
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Pohlabeln, H.
Ahrens, W.
Russo, P.
Veidebaum, T.
Hadjigeorgiou, C.
Molnár, D.
Hunsberger, M.
De Henauw, S.
Moreno, L. A.
Hebestreit, A. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7354-5958
Funding for this research was provided by:
Sixth Framework Programme (016181(FOOD))
Seventh Framework Programme (266044)
Article History
Received: 26 June 2020
Accepted: 18 November 2020
First Online: 27 November 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: None.
: Ethical approval was obtained from the ethics committees for all participating centers in each country: Ethics Committee, University Hospital, Gent, Belgium; Cyprus National Bioethics Committee, Nicosia, Cyprus; Tallinn Medical Research Ethics Committee, Tallinn, Estonia; Ethics Committee of the University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany; Egészségügyi Tudományos Tanács, Pécs, Hungary; Azienda Sanitaria Locale Avellino Comitato Etico, Avellino, Italy; Regionala Etikprövningsnämnden i Göteborg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Comité Ético de Investigación Clínica de Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain. All the examinations were performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki.
: All parents signed informed consent, in addition, children aged 12 years and older gave simplified written consent and children younger than 12 years gave oral consent prior to the examinations in addition to the signed parental consent.
: <b>N</b>ot applicable
: All the statistical analyses were carried out with the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) software package (Version 9.4; SAS Institute, Cary, NC).