Gómez-Acebo, Inés
Dierssen-Sotos, Trinidad
Palazuelos, Camilo
Castaño-Vinyals, Gemma
Pérez-Gómez, Beatriz
Amiano, Pilar
Fernández-Villa, Tania
Ardanaz, Eva
Suarez-Calleja, Claudia
Alguacil, Juan
Molina-Barceló, Ana
Jiménez-Moleón, José J.
Molero, Jessica Alonso
Roca-Barceló, Aina
Chirlaque, María-Dolores
Vázquez, José Pedro Fernández
Molinuevo, Amaia
Aragonés, Nuria
Serra, Maria Sala
Binefa, Gemma
Moreno, Victor
Pollán, Marina
Kogevinas, Manolis
Llorca, Javier
Article History
Received: 5 November 2019
Accepted: 29 March 2020
First Online: 15 April 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.The protocol of MCC-Spain was approved by the Ethics committees of the participating institutions. The specific study reported here was approved by the Ethical Committee of Clinical Research of Asturias, Barcelona, Cantabria, Girona, Gipuzkoa, Huelva, León, Madrid, Navarra and Valencia. At recruitment, all participants were informed about the study objectives and signed an informed consent, which also included the authorization for following-up the patient via medical records or phone calls; only participants agreeing in being followed-up were included in the inception cohorts. Confidentiality of data is secured by removing personal identifiers in the datasets. The database was registered in the Spanish Agency for Data Protection, number 2102672171.This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
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: All authors have read and approved the content of the article. The authors declare that they have no competing interests.