Breau, Becky
Brandes, Mirko
Veidebaum, Toomas
Tornaritis, Michael
Moreno, Luis A.
Molnár, Dénes
Lissner, Lauren
Eiben, Gabriele
Lauria, Fabio
Kaprio, Jaakko
De Henauw, Stefaan
Ahrens, Wolfgang
Buck, Christoph http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0261-704X
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Funding for this research was provided by:
Sixth Framework Programme (Contract No.016181 (FOOD))
Seventh Framework Programme (Contract No.266044)
European Comission (Erasmus+)
Leibniz-Institut für Präventionsforschung und Epidemiologie – BIPS GmbH
Article History
Received: 8 August 2022
Accepted: 17 November 2022
First Online: 9 December 2022
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; Comitato Etico Azienda Sanitaria Locale Avellino, Avellino, Italy; Regionala Etikprövningsnämnden i Göteborg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Comité Ético de Investigación Clínica de Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain.
: Not Applicable.
: The authors declare they have no competing interests.