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Before finalizing your manuscript

For any proposed publication or scientific communication based on Constances data, review and comply with the section of the Constances Cohort Access Charter entitled: “Dissemination of research results”.

First, it must be clearly and explicitly stated that the research was carried out within the framework of the Constances cohort and the word “Constances” must appear in the title or at least in the abstract of any publication, as well as the DOI: doi.org/10.13143/inserm_constances.

Second the manuscript must include as co-authors members of the Constances team, at least the project referent. Consult the Constances director if there is doubt about who would be appropriate co-authors.

Whenever possible, publications from Constances should be published in Open Access. A text presenting the cohort and a STROBE Statement are available.

Texts to include in the manuscript

A text presenting the cohort and a STROBE Statement are available.

Regulatory and ethical approvals, consent

The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. All procedures have been approved by the Institutional review board (IRB) of the French Institute of Health (Inserm) (Opinion n°01-011, then n°21-842), and authorized by the by the French Data Protection Authority (“Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés”, CNIL) (Authorization #910486). The biobank obtained a favorable advice from the Committee for the protection of individuals – CPP Sud Est I (#2018-32) and an authorization from the CNIL (#DR-2-2018-137). All participants signed a written consent form for their participation in Constances, and, where applicable, for their participation in the biobank. All information and regulatory authorizations relating to the publication are available on the French version page ‘Rights and data protection’.

Funding

The Constances cohort study was supported and funded by the French national health insurance fund (“Caisse nationale d’assurance maladie”, Cnam). Constances is a National infrastructure for biology and health (“Infrastructure nationale en biologie et santé”) and benefits from a grant from the French national agency for research (ANR-11-INBS-0002). Constances is also partly funded to a small extent by industrial companies, notably in the healthcare sector, within the framework of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP). None of these funding sources had any role in the design of the study, collection and analysis of data or decision to publish.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the team of the “Population-based cohorts unit” (Cohortes en population) that designed and manages the Constances cohort study. They also thank the French national health insurance fund (“Caisse nationale d’assurance maladie”, Cnam) and its Health screening centres (“Centres d’examens de santé”), which are collecting a large part of the data, as well as the French national old-age insurance fund (“Caisse nationale d’assurance vieillesse”, Cnav) for its contribution to the constitution of the cohort, and ClinSearch, Asqualab and Eurocell, which are conducting the data quality control.

Data sharing statement

In accordance with the Constances Charter, deidentified participant data from the Constances Cohort are available to researchers who meet the legal and ethical requirements set by the French National Commission governing data privacy laws. International researchers can access the dataset by following the procedure outlined here. Additionally, all study materials, including the study protocol and data dictionary of the Constances Cohort, are freely accessible.

References that can be included in References section of manuscript

Depending on the nature of the manuscript to be submitted, one or more of the following references should be included in the References section.

  • Zins M, Goldberg M, and the CONSTANCES team. The French CONSTANCES population-based cohort: design, inclusion and follow-up. Eur J Epidemiology. 2015 Dec, 30(12):1317-1328. doi: 10.1007/s10654-015-0096-4. [General presentation of the cohort]
  • Goldberg M, Carton M, Descatha A, Leclerc A, Roquelaure Y, Santin G, Zins M; CONSTANCES team. CONSTANCES: a general prospective population-based cohort for occupational and environmental epidemiology – Cohort profile. Occup Environ Med. 2017 Jan, 74(1):66-71. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2016-103678. [Focusing on the environment and occupational hazards]
  • Henny J, Nadif R, Le Got S, Lemonnier S, Ozguler A, Ruiz F, Beaumont K, Brault D, Sandt E, Goldberg M, Zins M. The CONSTANCES Cohort Biobank: An Open Tool for Research in Epidemiology and Prevention of Diseases. Front Public Health. 2020 Dec, 8:605133. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.605133. [Biobank presentation]
  • Ruiz F, Goldberg M, Lemonnier S, Ozguler A, Boos E, Brigand A, Giraud V, Perez T, Roche N, Zins M. High quality standards for a large-scale prospective population based observational cohort: Constances. BMC Public Health 2016 Aug, 16(1):877. doi:10.1186/s12889-016-3439-5. [Health exam data]
  • Santin G, Herquelot E, Guéguen A, Carton M, Cyr D, Genreau M, Goldberg S, Gourmelen J, Hourani I, Ozguler A, Pascal P, Ribet C, Salem E, Goldberg M, Zins M. Estimation de prévalences dans Constances : premières explorations. Bull Epidémiol Hebd. 2016;35-36:622-9. [Weighting data]
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