Kumarathasan, Premkumari http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7239-4967
Vincent, Renaud
Blais, Erica
Bielecki, Agnieszka
Guénette, Josée
Filiatreault, Alain
Brion, Orly
Cakmak, Sabit
Thomson, Errol M.
Shutt, Robin
Kauri, Lisa Marie
Mahmud, Mamun
Liu, Ling
Dales, Robert
Funding for this research was provided by:
Health Canada (Clean Air Regulatory Agenda)
Article History
Received: 13 December 2017
Accepted: 25 July 2018
First Online: 10 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was reviewed approved by the Health Canada Research Ethics Board (reference number 2009–0044) and the ethics board at Algoma University. Consent to participate was obtained from all subjects. Each participant completed an ethics board approved informed consent process, and were advised that they could refuse to participate in individual tests, or withdraw from the study at any time, without penalty. Please see previous papers from cohort study by Dales et al., 2013 [ CitationRef removed ], Lui et al., 2014 [ CitationRef removed ], Cakmak, et al., 2014 [ CitationRef removed ] and Shutt et al., 2017 [ CitationRef removed ].
: Informed consent was sought from all study participants using the Research Ethics Board approved consent process, including informed consent for publication of aggregated results in peer reviewed publications.
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