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Article History

Received: 7 February 2022

Accepted: 2 August 2022

First Online: 21 September 2022

Declarations

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: The most recent sweeps of NCDS, BCS70, Next Steps and MCS have all been granted ethical approval by the National Health Service (NHS) Research Ethics Committee and all participants have given informed consent. Data for NCDS (SN 6137), BCS70 (SN 8547), Next Steps (SN 5545), MCS (SN8682) and all four COVID-19 surveys (SN 8658) are available through the UK Data Service. NSHD data are available on request to the NSHD Data Sharing Committee. Interested researchers can apply to access the NSHD data via a standard application procedure. Data requests should be submitted; further details can be found at. doi:10.5522/NSHD/Q101; doi:10.5522/NSHD/Q10.Ethical approval was obtained from the ALSPAC Ethics and Law Committee and the Local Research Ethics Committees. The study website contains details of all the data that is available through a fully searchable data dictionary and variable search tool:. ALSPAC data is available to researchers through an online proposal system. Information regarding access can be found on the ALSPAC website ().All waves of TwinsUK have received ethical approval associated with TwinsUK Biobank (19/NW/0187), TwinsUK (EC04/015) or Healthy Ageing Twin Study (H.A.T.S) (07/H0802/84) studies from NHS Research Ethics Committees at the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London. TheTwinsUKResource Executive Committee (TREC) oversees management, data sharing and collaborations involving the TwinsUK registry (for further details seehttps://twinsuk.ac.uk/resources-for-researchers/access-our-data/).The University of Essex Ethics Committee has approved all data collection for the Understanding Society main study and COVID-19 waves. No additional ethical approval was necessary for this secondary data analysis. All data are available through the UK Data Service (SN 6614 and SN 8644).Waves 1-9 of ELSA were approved through the National Research Ethics Service, while the COVID-19 Sub-study was approved by the UCL Research Ethics Committee. All participants provided informed consent. All data are available through the UK Data Service (SN 8688 and 5050).Generation Scotlandobtained ethical approval from the East of Scotland Committee on Medical Research Ethics (on behalf of the National Health Service). Reference number 20/ES/0021. Access to data is approved by the Generation Scotland Access Committee. Seehttps://for further details.

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: No conflicts of interest were declared by MJG, JM, GDG, ADH, BW, SP, GJG, JC, AJS, CFH, CB, JW, RJS, PP, LDH, EF, and GBP. SVK is a member of the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies.