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Buck, Christoph https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0261-704X
Eiben, Gabriele
Lauria, Fabio
Konstabel, Kenn
Page, Angie
Ahrens, Wolfgang
Pigeot, Iris
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
German Research Foundation (PI 345/7-1)
EC: Sixth Framework Programm (016181)
EC: Seventh Framework Programme (266044)
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Article History
Received: 10 May 2019
Accepted: 15 November 2019
First Online: 11 December 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The manuscript is based on data from three countries, Germany, Italy, and Sweden, where the approval by the appropriate ethics committees was obtained by each of the centres doing the fieldwork in each of the studies, IDEFICS and I.Family (Germany: Ethic Commission of the University of Bremen, 16/01/2007 and 11/12/2012; Italy: Ethics Committee of the Local Health Authority (ASL) in Avellino, 19/06/2007, ref.: No. 2/CE and 18/Sep/2012, No. 12/12; Sweden: Regional Ethics Research Board in Gothenburg, 30/07/2007, ref.: No. 264–07 and 10/Jan/2013, No. 927–12). The Pan-European IDEFICS / I.Family children cohort is registered under ISRCTN62310987.Study children did not undergo any procedure before both they and their parents had given consent for examinations, collection of samples, subsequent analysis and storage of personal data and collected samples. Study subjects and their parents could consent to single components of the study while abstaining from others [].
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
