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Response to the letter “Red blood cell distribution width as a biomarker: the importance of age-dependent changes and other variables”

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The datasets used and analysed in response to the letter are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request and approval by the Steering Committee of MIND-China at Shandong Provincial Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, China.

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The Multimodal Interventions to Delay Dementia and Disability in Rural China (MIND-China) was supported in part by the National Key R&D Program of China Ministry of Sciences and Technology (Grant no.: 2017YFC1310100), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants no.: 82171175 and 82011530139), and the Academic Promotion Program of Shandong First Medical University (Grant no.: 2019QL020). The funding agency had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, the writing of this manuscript, and in the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. Department of Neurology, Shandong Provincial Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, No. 324 Jingwuweiqi Road, Jinan, 250021, Shandong, China

    Ziying Jiang, Yongxiang Wang & Yifeng Du

  2. Department of Neurology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China

    Ziying Jiang, Yongxiang Wang, Yifeng Du & Chengxuan Qiu

  3. Aging Research Center and Center for Alzheimer Research, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet-Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Chengxuan Qiu

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The MIND-China Study was approved by the Ethics Committee at the Shandong Provincial Hospital affiliated to Shandong University and was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles expressed in the Declaration of Helsinki.

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Jiang, Z., Wang, Y., Du, Y. et al. Response to the letter “Red blood cell distribution width as a biomarker: the importance of age-dependent changes and other variables”. Aging Clin Exp Res 35, 899–900 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40520-022-02339-x

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