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Article History

Received: 14 October 2021

Accepted: 14 January 2022

First Online: 2 February 2022

Declarations

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: This current project received ethics approval at two levels. Consent to participate was obtained for all participants under the CLSA harmonized multi-university ethics process approved by the Hamilton Integrated Research Ethics Board (HiREB), Hamilton Health Sciences/McMaster University. All methods were carried out in accordance with the HiREB guidelines and regulations. Written informed consent was obtained from all CLSA participants prior to enrollment. Individuals who were not deemed to be cognitively functional were excluded from the CLSA study. Simon Fraser University (SFU) was a participating institution in the CLSA data collection, and the McMaster Research Services Ethics Committee reviewed all consent material prior to data collection.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.