Maas, Silvana C. E.
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Vidaki, Athina
Wilson, Rory
Teumer, Alexander
Liu, Fan
van Meurs, Joyce B. J.
Uitterlinden, André G.
Boomsma, Dorret I.
de Geus, Eco J. C.
Willemsen, Gonneke
van Dongen, Jenny
van der Kallen, Carla J. H.
Slagboom, P. Eline
Beekman, Marian
van Heemst, Diana
van den Berg, Leonard H.
Duijts, Liesbeth
Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.
Ladwig, Karl-Heinz
Kunze, Sonja
Peters, Annette
Ikram, M. Arfan
Grabe, Hans J.
Felix, Janine F.
Waldenberger, Melanie
Franco, Oscar H.
Ghanbari, Mohsen
Kayser, Manfred
Funding for this research was provided by:
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO 184.021.007, 529051014, 016.136.361, 184021007, 050-060-810)
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (633595, 733206, 696295)
H2020 European Research Council (ERC-2014-CoG-648916)
FP7 Science in Society (603288, 602736)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD068437)
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (01ZZ9603, 01ZZ0103, 01ZZ0403, 03IS2061A)
Deutsches Zentrum für Herz- Kreislaufforschung (81X3400104)
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (940–35–034)
Dutch Diabetes Research Foundation (98.901)
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO-Groot 480-15-001/674)
ZonMw (904-61-090, 985-10-002, 912-10-020, 904-61-193, 480-04-004, 463-06-001, 451-04-034, 400-05-717)
Article History
Received: 4 May 2019
Accepted: 22 August 2019
First Online: 7 September 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: H.J. Grabe has received funding from Fresenius Medical Care and speaker’s honoraria as well as travel funds from Fresenius Medical Care, Neuraxpharm and Janssen-Cilag. Other than that, the authors declared no conflict of interest.
: The study was approved by the institutional review boards of the participating medical centers: CODAM, Medical Ethical Committee of the Maastricht University; LL, Ethics committee of The University Medical Centre Groningen; LLS, Ethical committee of the Leiden University Medical Center; PAN, Institutional review board of the University Medical Centre Utrecht; NTR, Central Ethics Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects of the VU University Medical Centre; RS, Dutch Ministry of Health; KORA, Institutional review board Ethics Committee of the Bavarian Medical Association (Bayrische Landesärztekammer); SHIP-Trend, Institutional review board Ethics committee of the University of Greifswald. The Rotterdam Study has been approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of the Erasmus MC (Registration Number MEC 02.1015) and by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (Population Screening Act WBO, License Number 1071272-159521-PG). The Rotterdam Study has been entered into the Netherlands National Trial Register (NTR; ExternalRef removed) and into the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP; ExternalRef removed) under shared catalogue Number NTR6831. The experimental methods comply with the Helsinki Declaration.
: All participants, in case of children their parents, provided written informed consent to participate in the study and to have their information obtained from treating physicians.