Sprengeler, Ole
Pohlabeln, Hermann http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9575-1119
Bammann, Karin
Buck, Christoph
Lauria, Fabio
Verbestel, Vera
Eiben, Gabriele
Konstabel, Kenn
Molnár, Dénes
Moreno, Luis A.
Pitsiladis, Yannis
Page, Angie
Reisch, Lucia
Tornaritis, Michael
Ahrens, Wolfgang
Funding for this research was provided by:
Sixth RTD Framework Programme (016181)
Seventh RTD Framework Programme (266044)
Leibniz-Institut für Präventionsforschung und Epidemiologie – BIPS GmbH
Article History
Received: 16 November 2020
Accepted: 2 July 2021
First Online: 9 August 2021
Declarations
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: All parents and their children above 12 years old signed informed consent, while younger children gave oral consent prior to the examinations in addition to the signed parental consent. Ethical approval was obtained from the ethics committees for all participating centres in each country: Ethics Committee, University Hospital, Gent, Belgium; Cyprus National Bioethics Committee, Nicosia, Cyprus; Tallinn Medical Research Ethics Committee,Tallinn, Estonia; Ethics Committee of the University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany; Egészségügyi Tudományos Tanács, Pécs, Hungary; Azienda Sanitaria Locale Avellino Comitato Etico, Avellino, Italy; Regionala Etikprövningsnämnden i Göteborg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Comité Ético de Investigación Clínica de Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.