The participants provided written informed consent; there was no financial compensation. Grading of Fundus Photographs for AMD A modification of the Wisconsin Age-Related Maculopathy Grading System13 was used to perform masked grading. In this 6-level system, 10 indicates hard drusen or small soft ...
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25 The China-PAR project was approved by the institutional review board at Fuwai Hospital in Beijing, China, and written informed consent was obtained from all participants. This study followed the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) reporting guideline for ...
TheJapanese Penal Codesets a minimal age of consent of 13. However, all prefectures and districts have (largely similar) “obscenity ordinances” (淫行条例) that forbid “fornication” (淫行) with anyone under 18 years of age, but exempt sex in the context of a sincere romantic relationship (...
ELSA respondents gave their informed consent to participate in the study and for mortality data linkage. Ethical approval for all phases of NorStOP was obtained from the North Staffordshire Local Research Ethics Committee. A completed returned NorStOP questionnaire provided informed consent for inclusion...
. . . Should the strong enemies become aggressive and press us to consent to things we can never accept, we have no alternative but to rely upon the justice of our cause. . . . If our . . . hundreds of millions of inhabitants . . . would prove their loyalty to their emperor and ...
The Ethics Committee of the Toho University School of Medicine approved this study (approval #A16062), which was cross-sectional in nature, and all subjects provided informed consent for participation in accord with the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. Subjects We studied 1,079 subjects who...
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Research projects involving secondary analysis of deidentified public use data sets, such as aggregated US Mortality Data and the US Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program research data, do not require prior institutional review board approval or informed consent per the National ...
Written informed consent was obtained from all participants. Analyses of these data were approved by the institutional review board for the Massachusetts General Hospital. Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) reporting guideline was followed. Data were collected ...