Ptushkina, Violetta http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3785-5486
Jacobs, Esther
Schipf, Sabine
Völzke, Henry
Markus, Marcello Ricardo Paulista
Nauck, Matthias
Meisinger, Christa
Peters, Annette
Maier, Werner
Herder, Christian
Roden, Michael
Rathmann, Wolfgang
Article History
Received: 4 June 2018
Accepted: 26 November 2018
First Online: 3 December 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study conformed to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki. The SHIP-TREND study was approved by the medical ethics committee of the University of Greifswald. The KORA-F4 study was approved by the ethics committee of the Bavarian Medical Association. Each patient agreed to participate and gave written informed consent to the study. The steering committees of the SHIP and the KORA studies approved the secondary use of data.
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