The relationship between thyroid dysfunction, cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in type 2 diabetes: The Fremantle Diabetes Study Phase II.

"Declarations Conflict of interestsThe authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. Ethical approvalThe study was performed in accordance with the Helsinski Declaration of 1975. The FDS2 protocol was approved by the Southern Metropolitan Area Health Service Human Research Ethics Committee (reference 07/397). Informed consentAll subjects gave written informed consent before participation. Conflict of interests The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest."

"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by CAUL and its Member Institutions. The FDS2 was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (project grants 513781 and 1042231). The present sub-study was supported by a grant from the Fremantle Hospital Medical Research Foundation. TMED is supported by a Medical Research Future Fund Practitioner Fellowship. These funding bodies had no involvement in the study design, data collection, analysis and interpretation of results or writing this manuscript."