Arshi, Banafsheh
van den Berge, Jan C.
van Dijk, Bart
Deckers, Jaap W.
Ikram, M. Arfan
Kavousi, Maryam
Article History
Received: 24 August 2020
Accepted: 15 January 2021
First Online: 16 February 2021
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 the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (Population Screening Act WBO, license number 1071272-159521-PG). In addition, the Rotterdam Study has been entered into the Netherlands National Trial Register (NTR; ExternalRef removed) and the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP; ExternalRef removed) under shared catalog number NTR6831. All participants provided written informed consent for participation and data collection from general practitioners and pharmacies.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.