Pang, Yuanjie
Lv, Jun
Kartsonaki, Christiana http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3981-3418
Guo, Yu
Yu, Canqing
Chen, Yiping
Yang, Ling
Bian, Zheng
Millwood, Iona Y.
Walters, Robin G. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9179-0321
Li, Xiaojun
Zou, Ju
Holmes, Michael V. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6617-0879
Chen, Junshi
Chen, Zhengming
Li, Liming
Article History
Received: 9 June 2020
Revised: 5 February 2021
Accepted: 19 February 2021
First Online: 26 March 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The CKB study was approved by the Ethical Review Committee of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Oxford Tropical Research Ethics Committee, University of Oxford. The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. All participants eligible for this study had completed a written informed consent form.
: Not applicable.
: CKB investigators are committed to sharing this important resource with the wider scientific community, so that the potential value of the CKB resource can be maximised. Open access to the CKB resource has begun in a phased approach. To facilitate the process a Data Access Committee (see ExternalRef removed) has been established, comprising not only senior CKB scientists but also external experts in related fields. For any external data access requests, an outline proposal defining the purpose of the investigation, the data/samples required and the time-scale for the analysis needs to be completed and submitted for review by the study executive committee. The access request review will assess the scientific merit of the proposal to ensure that research questions are legitimate and that there is no duplication of effort. Only proposals complying with the activities listed in the participant’s original consent and with the study’s ethical approval will be considered.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Dr. Pang acknowledges support from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2019TQ0008 and 2020M670071). This work was supported by grants (2016YFC0900500, 2016YFC0900501, 2016YFC0900504, 2016YFC1303904) from the National Key R&D Program of China. The CKB baseline survey and the first re-survey were supported by a grant from the Kadoorie Charitable Foundation in Hong Kong. The long-term follow-up is supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (91846303, 91843302, 81390540, 81390541, 81390544), and Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (2011BAI09B01). Dr. Holmes is supported by a British Heart Foundation Intermediate Clinical Research Fellowship (FS/18/23/33512) and the National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre.