Female Brain and Endocrinological Research–Veteran (FemBER-Vet) study: A study protocol for identifying endocrinological, lifestyle and psychosocial determinants of brain health outcomes in female veterans for future intervention success

• Tamlyn Watermeyer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tamlyn Watermeyer, Paul Ansdell, Chinedu Udeh-Momoh

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tamlyn.watermeyer@northumbria.ac.uk

  Affiliations Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom, Edinburgh Dementia Prevention, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Female Brain & Endocrine Health Research (FemBER) Consortium, Northern Hub for Military Veterans and Families, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8232-5305

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• Elliott Atkinson,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom, Northern Hub for Military Veterans and Families, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4884-1135

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• Glyn Howatson,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom, Northern Hub for Military Veterans and Families, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom, Water Research Group, North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

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• Gill McGill,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom, Northern Hub for Military Veterans and Families, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom

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• Christina Dodds,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom, Northern Hub for Military Veterans and Families, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom

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• Paul Ansdell ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tamlyn Watermeyer, Paul Ansdell, Chinedu Udeh-Momoh

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom, Northern Hub for Military Veterans and Families, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom

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• Chinedu Udeh-Momoh

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tamlyn Watermeyer, Paul Ansdell, Chinedu Udeh-Momoh

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Female Brain & Endocrine Health Research (FemBER) Consortium, Ageing Epidemiology (AGE) Research Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Brain and Mind Institute, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Center for Alzheimer Research, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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