The authors have retracted this article at the request of the UK Biobank. They had used patient data from the UK Biobank study to assess risk stratification in a range of diseases; however, according to the Control of Patient Information (COPI) notice, primary care data had only been made available for research directly related to COVID-19. Therefore, this article has been retracted and the content removed.
All authors agree with this retraction.
Footnotes
The authors have retracted this article at the request of the UK Biobank. They had used patient data from the UK Biobank study to assess risk stratification in a range of diseases; however, according to the Control of Patient Information (COPI) notice, primary care data had only been made available for research directly related to COVID-19. Therefore, this article has been retracted and the content removed. All authors agree with this retraction.
These authors contributed equally: Jakob Steinfeldt, Benjamin Wild, Thore Buergel.
These authors jointly supervised this work: Ulf Landmesser, John Deanfield, Roland Eils.