Characteristics of a tattooed population and a possible role of tattoos as a risk factor for chronic diseases: Results from the LIFE-Adult-Study

• Loryn E. Theune,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department Chemicals and Product Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany

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• Narges Ghoreishi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department Exposure, Unit of Epidemiology statistics and exposure modelling, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany

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• Cornelia Weikert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department Food and Feed Safety in the Food Chain, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany

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• Christine Müller-Graf,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department Exposure, Unit of Epidemiology statistics and exposure modelling, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany

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• Christoph Engel,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Statistics and Epidemiology, Leipzig University, Institute for Medical Informatics, Leipzig, Germany, Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

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• Kerstin Wirkner,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Statistics and Epidemiology, Leipzig University, Institute for Medical Informatics, Leipzig, Germany, Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

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• Ronny Baber,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, University Hospital Leipzig, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Leipzig, Germany, Leipzig Medical Biobank, University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Peter Laux,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department Chemicals and Product Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany

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• Andreas Luch,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department Chemicals and Product Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany

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• Michael Giulbudagian

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Michael.Giulbudagian@bfr.bund.de

  Affiliation Department Chemicals and Product Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0832-8831

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