Pastor-Barriuso, Roberto
Padrón-Monedero, Alicia
Parra-Ramírez, Lina M.
García López, Fernando J.
Damián, Javier http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6258-8220
Funding for this research was provided by:
Instituto de Salud Carlos III (PI15CIII00037)
Article History
Received: 6 August 2020
Accepted: 9 November 2020
First Online: 18 November 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: We obtained verbal informed consent from either the participant or her/his next of kin. By the time the baseline study started Spanish regulations did not require IRB approval for observational studies, but 7 years later the Carlos III Institute of Health’s Ethics Committee approved the mortality project that gave rise to this manuscript (report number CEI PI 15_2014).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.