Iacomino, Giuseppe http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5231-2231
Lauria, Fabio
Russo, Paola
Venezia, Antonella
Iannaccone, Nunzia
Marena, Pasquale
Ahrens, Wolfgang
De Henauw, Stefaan
Molnár, Dénes
Eiben, Gabriele
Foraita, Ronja
Hebestreit, Antje
Kourides, Giannis
Moreno, Luis A.
Veidebaum, Toomas
Siani, Alfonso
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Funding for this research was provided by:
Seventh Framework Programme (266044)
Article History
Received: 10 March 2021
Accepted: 18 May 2021
First Online: 9 July 2021
Declarations
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: This study was conducted according to the standards of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval by the appropriate ethics committees was obtained by each of the eight participating centres carrying out the fieldwork (Ethics Committee of the Ghent University Hospital, Belgium; National Bioethics Committee, Cyprus; Tallinn Medical Research Ethics Committee, Estonia; Ethics Committee of the University of Bremen, Germany; Scientific and Research Ethics Committee of the Medical Research Council of Pécs (TUKEB) and Baranja County Public Health and Medical Officer Service (ANTSZ), Hungary; Ethics Committee of the Local Health Institute in Avellino (ASL), Italy; Ethics Committee of Clinical Research of Aragon (CEICA), Spain; Regional Ethics Committee of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden). Participants were not subjected to any study procedure before both the children and their parents gave their oral (children) and written (parents) informed consent for examinations, collection of samples, subsequent analysis, and storage of personal data and collected samples.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.