Weber, Andrea http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4777-7808
Leitzmann, Michael F.
Sedlmeier, Anja M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7564-3065
Baurecht, Hansjörg
Jochem, Carmen
Haferkamp, Sebastian
Baumeister, Sebastian E.
Article History
Received: 15 October 2020
Revised: 30 April 2021
Accepted: 14 May 2021
First Online: 31 May 2021
Ethical approval and consent to participate
: All procedures performed were in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards and ethical approval was obtained from North West Multi-centre Research Ethics Committee (REC reference: 11/ NW/03820). Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: Not applicable.
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: We received no specific funding for this work. The UK Biobank was supported by the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council, Department of Health, Scottish government and Northwest Regional Development Agency. It has also had funding from the Welsh Assembly government and British Heart Foundation. The research was designed, conducted, analysed and interpreted by us entirely independently of the funding sources. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.