Liu, Peipei
McMenamin, Úna C.
Johnston, Brian T.
Murchie, Peter http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9968-5991
Iversen, Lisa
Lee, Amanda J.
Vissers, Pauline A. J.
Cardwell, Chris R.
Funding for this research was provided by:
China Scholarship Council (201708060458)
Article History
Received: 10 December 2019
Revised: 27 March 2020
Accepted: 8 April 2020
First Online: 5 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval for the PCCIU data was supplied by the Queen’s University Belfast, School of Medicine and Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences Research Ethics Committee (reference number: 15.43). The UK Biobank has ethical approval from the North West Multi-Centre Research Ethics Committee. All UK Biobank participants provided written informed consent. The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: The UK Biobank data (ExternalRef removed) and PCCIU data (ExternalRef removed) are available, following the access procedures, for researchers to access to conduct health-related research in the public interest.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Access to the UK Biobank was funded by a Cancer Research UK Population Research Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded to ÚCMcM. Liu P. was supported by a joint scholarship from Queen’s University Belfast and the Chinese Scholarship Council (201708060458).