Neustaeter, Anna http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3668-8674
Nolte, Ilja
Snieder, Harold
Jansonius, Nomdo M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (661883)
Rotterdamse Stichting Blindenbelangen (B20150036)
Article History
Received: 2 December 2020
Accepted: 15 December 2020
First Online: 7 January 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Lifelines obtained ethical approval from the ethics board of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) for population-based data collection on the 15th of October, 2007. For this study, the ethics board of the UMCG approved the study protocol on the 31st of January, 2019. This study was registered with the Netherlands Trial Register (ExternalRef removed). All participants provided written informed consent. The study follows the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki and is being monitored by the UMCG. Results will be disseminated once data collection is complete.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.