Andretti, Bernardo
Atanasova, Petya
Verdun, Zoey
Wellappuli, Nalinda Tharanga
Pradeepa, Rajendra
Vasudevan, Sudha
Tyagi, Akansha
Ahsan, Ali
Hossain, Md. Mokbul
Shamim, Abu Ahmed
Akter, Fahmida
Mahmood, Sara
Athauda, Lathika
Gamage, Manoja
Kaluarachchi, Manuja
Burgoine, Thomas
Brage, Soren
Forouhi, Nita G.
Goon, Ian
Loh, Marie
Katulanda, Prasad
Kasturiratne, Anuradhani
Khawaja, Khadija Irfan
Ahmad, Sajjad
Mridha, Malay K.
Jha, Vinitaa
Anjana, Ranjit Mohan
Chambers, John C.
Frost, Gary
Sassi, Franco
Miraldo, Marisa
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health Research (16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68, 16/136/68)
LISS-DTP by the Economic and Social Research Council (ES/P000703/1)
National Institute of Health Research (NHIR) Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR203312, NIHR203312)
MRC Epidemiology Unit (MC-UU_00006/3, MC-UU_00006/3)
NIHR Senior Investigator (NIHR202397)
Singapore Ministry of Health’s National Medical Research Council, Singapore Translational Research Investigator (STaR) Award (NMRC/STaR/0028/2017)
Article History
Received: 25 October 2024
Accepted: 30 July 2025
First Online: 29 August 2025
Declarations
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: The South Asia Biobank (SAB) is conducted in accordance with the recommendations for physicians involved in research on human subjects, adopted by the 18th World Medical Assembly, Helsinki, 1964, and later revisions. Research approval was obtained from the Imperial College London Research Ethics Committee (reference: 18IC4698) and local institutional review boards in each of the participating countries.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.