O’Neill, Dara http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8830-0264
Britton, Annie
Hannah, Mary K.
Goldberg, Marcel
Kuh, Diana
Khaw, Kay Tee
Bell, Steven
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medical Research Council (MR/M006638/1, G0401527, G1000143, MR_UC_12019/01, MC_A540_53462, MC_UU_12017/13, MR/K013351/1, G0902037)
Alcohol Research UK (MR/M006638/1)
European Research Council (ERC-StG-2012-309337_AlcoholLifecourse)
Cancer Research UK (C864/A8257)
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-08-BLAN-0028-01)
Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire de l'Environnement et du Travail (AFSSET-EST08-35)
British Heart Foundation (RG/13/2/30098)
National Institutes of Health (R01HL36310, R01AG013196)
Article History
Received: 16 March 2018
Accepted: 10 July 2018
First Online: 22 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All data used and analysed in this study were secondary data that had previously been anonymised by the individual cohort studies. Ethical approval for the EPIC-N study was received from the Norwich District Health Authority Ethics Committee. The GAZEL study received approval from the Commission Nationale Informatique et Liberté. The NSHD was granted ethical approval from the Greater Manchester Local Research Ethics Committee and the Scotland A Research Ethics Committee. Approval for the Twenty-07 Study was received from the ethical sub-committee of the West of Scotland Medical Committee and the University of Glasgow’s Ethics Committee for Non-Clinical Research Involving Human Subjects. The WII study received approval from the University College London Medical School Committee on the Ethics of Human Research. All participants in these studies gave written informed consent.
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