Mendoza-Mejía, Nicolás
Kolbe, Daniel
Özer, Onur
Dose, Janina
Torres, Guillermo G.
Franke, Andre
Nygaard, Marianne
Nebel, Almut
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (400993799, 390884018)
Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein - Campus Kiel
Article History
Received: 3 April 2025
Accepted: 24 September 2025
First Online: 20 October 2025
Declarations
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: This study project was performed respecting the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. The study of the German cohort was conducted in accordance with the approval from the Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty of Kiel University and complies with the rules in the General Data Protection Regulation. All participants gave written informed consent to participate in this study.For the Danish cohort, written informed consents were obtained from all participants. Collection and use of biological, survey, and registry information were approved by the Regional Committees on Health Research Ethics for Southern Denmark, and the study is registered in SDU’s internal list (notification no. 12. 093) and complies with the rules in the General Data Protection Regulation.The UK Biobank is advised by its own Ethics Advisory Committee, and they have obtained consent from all participants to take part in it. This research has been conducted using the UK Biobank Resource under application number 139525.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.