Terzikhan, Natalie
Hofman, Albert
Goudsmit, Jaap
Ikram, Mohammad Arfan
Article History
Received: 8 December 2020
Accepted: 8 February 2021
First Online: 26 February 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Authors declare no conflicts of interests.
: 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 Personal Registration Data collection is filed with the Erasmus MC Data Protection Officer under registration number EMC1712001. 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. All participants provided written informed consent to participate in the study and to have their information obtained from treating physicians.