Anastasiou, Costas A.
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Fappa, Evaggelia
Zachari, Konstantina
Mavrogianni, Christina
Van Stappen, Vicky
Kivelä, Jemina
Virtanen, Eeva
González-Gil, Esther M.
Flores-Barrantes, Paloma
Nánási, Anna
Semánová, Csilla
Dimova, Roumyana
Usheva, Natalya
Iotova, Violeta
Cardon, Greet
Manios, Yannis
Makrilakis, Konstantinos http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4160-0577
Funding for this research was provided by:
European Union (HORIZON 2020), under Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (643708)
Article History
Received: 25 November 2019
Accepted: 4 December 2019
First Online: 12 March 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The institution of each partner of the study provided ethics approval of the study and signed consent for participation was obtained. More specifically, in Belgium the study was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of the Ghent University Hospital; in Bulgaria, by the Ethics Committee of the Medical University of Varna and the Municipalities of Sofia and Varna, as well as the Ministry of Education and Science local representatives; in Finland, by the hos- pital district of Southwest Finland ethical committee; in Greece, by the Bioethics Committee of Harokopio Uni- versity and the Greek Ministry of Education; in Hungary, by the National Committee for Scientific Research in Medicine; and in Spain, the study was approved by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee and the Department of Consumers’ Health of the Government of Aragón.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.