Zheng, Jiaojiao
Rutegård, Martin
Santoni, Giola
Wallner, Bengt
Johansson, Ingegerd
Sund, Malin
Xie, Shao-Hua
Lagergren, Jesper
Funding for this research was provided by:
Cancerfonden (CAN 2015/460)
Vetenskapsrådet (SIMSAM D0547801)
Article History
Received: 6 March 2019
Revised: 12 April 2019
Accepted: 18 April 2019
First Online: 7 May 2019
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This work was supported by Swedish Research Council (VR SIMSAM D0547801) and Swedish Cancer Society (CAN 2015/460).
: This study was approved by the Regional Ethical Review Board in Umeå, Sweden (diary number 2017/188–31). Informed consents were obtained from each participant of the VIP and MONICA. The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: The questionnaires used for VIP and MONICA could be achieved online (VIP ; and MONICA accessed Dec. 9th, 2018). Access to the datasets analysed in the current study could be realised by application to Umeå University ( accessed 2019–01–18). Computing codes was recorded by the first author (JZ) and could be achieved through communication to the corresponding author (SX).
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