van der Toorn, Janine E.
Rueda-Ochoa, Oscar L.
van der Schaft, Niels
Vernooij, Meike W.
Ikram, M. Arfan
Bos, Daniel
Kavousi, Maryam
Article History
Received: 17 June 2020
Accepted: 27 July 2020
First Online: 24 September 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Rotterdam Study has been approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of the Erasmus MC (registration number MEC 02.1015) and by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (Population Screening Act WBO, license number 1071272-159521-PG). The Rotterdam Study has been entered into the Netherlands National Trial Register (NTR; ExternalRef removed) and into the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP; ExternalRef removed) under shared catalogue number NTR6831.All participants provided written informed consent to participate in the study and to have their information obtained from treating physicians.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.