Mehta, C. Christina
Hagen, Kimberly S.
Collins, Lauren F.
Moore, Renee’ H.
Ofotokun, Ighovwerha
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute on Aging (U54AG062334, U54AG062334, U54AG062334)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U01HL146241, U01HL146241)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (P30AI050409, P30AI050409, P30AI050409, P30AI050409)
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UL1TR002378)
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (R01AR070091)
Article History
Received: 13 September 2021
Accepted: 4 July 2022
First Online: 25 July 2022
Declarations
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: BBH obtains written informed consent from all participants. The Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Emory University approved the parent WIHS protocol for the Emory site. The BBH protocol was approved by the Emory University IRB and the Grady Health System Research Oversight Committee. The parent MWCCS study protocol was approved for all sites by the Johns Hopkins University IRB and prior WIHS participants were re-recruited and re-consented into MWCCS. MWCCS reverted to individual site IRB approval and informed consent was again obtained from all participants. All BBC methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.