1School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2The George Institute for Global Health, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
3Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Oxford, United Kingdom
4The George Institute for Global Health at Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
5Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
6Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
7School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
8The George Institute for Global Health, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
9Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Address correspondence to: Robert Clarke, MD, Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7LF, United Kingdom. E-mail: [email protected]
Received 24 June, 2019
Revised 9 September, 2019
Accepted 9 September, 2019
RI, MW, and RC equally contributed to this work.
‡Members of the Collaborative Group are listed at the end of the report.
Funding/support: The Chinese National Health Insurance scheme provided electronic linkage to all hospitalization data. The China Kadoorie Biobank study is jointly coordinated by the University of Oxford and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. The funding body for the baseline survey was the Kadoorie Charitable Foundation, Hong Kong, China and the funding sources for the long-term continuation of the study include UK Wellcome Trust (202922/Z/16/Z, 104085/Z/14/Z, 088158/Z/09/Z), Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (81390540, 81390541, 81390544), and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFC0900500, 2016YFC0900501, 2016YFC0900504, 2016YFC1303904). Core funding was provided to the CTSU, University of Oxford, by the British Heart Foundation, the UK Medical Research Council, and Cancer Research UK. The funders played no role in the design or conduct of the study, including data collection, management, analysis, or interpretation of the results; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
Financial disclosure/conflicts of interest: None reported.
