Hansen, Mathias Hvidtfelt
Kessel, Line
Li, Xiao Qiang
Skovgaard, Anne Mette
Larsen, Michael
Munch, Inger Christine
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bagenkop-Nielsens Øjen-Fond
Øjenforeningen (none)
Article History
Received: 1 October 2019
Accepted: 6 April 2020
First Online: 15 April 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Consent from parents or legal guardians was obtained before examinations at the 11 to 12-year examination. At the follow-up examination at 16 to 17-years both the participants and the parents or legal guardians received written information regarding the examinations and the participants gave their signed informed consent. The protocol was assessed by the Regional Committee on Health Research Ethics (The Capital Region of Denmark) in both 2011 (jr.nr. H-3-2011-028) and 2016 (protocol number 16023242) that concluded that medical ethics committee approval was not required. The Danish Data Protection Agency (jr.nr. CSU-FCFS-2016-004) approved the protocol. The study was in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.