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Article History

Received: 6 March 2018

Accepted: 30 August 2018

First Online: 20 September 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: JHS is a population-based cohort study recruited participants from three counties (Hinds, Madison, and Rankin) that make the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), Jackson, MS. Study protocols and consent forms for JHS were approved by the responsible research ethics committees and institutional review boards. All JHS participants provided written informed consent.

: Not applicable – all reported data have been aggregated. This manuscript does not provide participant level data.

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