Wang, Qin
Ferreira, Diana L. Santos
Nelson, Scott M.
Sattar, Naveed
Ala-Korpela, Mika
Lawlor, Debbie A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
British Heart Foundation (SP/07/008/24066)
Wellcome (WT092830M)
UK Medical Research Council (G1001357)
Article History
Received: 29 September 2017
Accepted: 17 January 2018
First Online: 6 February 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was obtained from the ALSPAC Law and Ethics Committee and the UK National Health Service Local Research Ethics Committee (references 08/H0106/96 and 11/SW/0110). Women provided informed written consent for their assessments and use of their blood samples.
: Not applicable.
: SMN has received research support from Roche Diagnostics and Ferring Pharmaceuticals for research unrelated to this paper. DAL has received research support from Roche Diagnostics and Medtronic for research unrelated to this paper. DAL was a member of the ALSPAC executive from April 2007 to June 2017. All other authors declare they have no competing interests.
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