Populations and consent
WEST, APC
EMMACE-3 (Participants consented to enter the EMMACE-3 and -4 studies and for their data to be
linked to other datasets and shared. The EMMACE-3 and -4 studies were given ethics
approval by the Leeds (West) Research Ethics Committee (REC reference: 10/H131374,
13/YH/0277, and 12/WM/0431). The EMMACE-XL and EMMACE-XXL studies were granted ethics
approval by the London Bridge Research Ethics Committee (EMMACE-XL, 20/PR/0104) and by
London-Hampstead Research ethics committee (EMMACE-XXL, 21/PR/0810). Permissions for the
linked Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care (HES APC) data and ONS mortality
data were obtained through NHS Digital (DARS-NIC-332338-X1N2G-v0.9).