Serum bicarbonate concentration and the risk of death in type 2 diabetes: the Fremantle Diabetes Study Phase II.

"Declarations Conflict of interestThe authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. Ethical approval and Informed consentThe FDS2 was approved by the South Metropolitan Area Health Service Human Research Ethics Committee, all participants gave written informed consent, and the study was performed in accordance with ethical standards specified in the Declaration of Helsinki. Conflict of interest The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest."

"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by CAUL and its Member Institutions. FDS2 was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council (Project Grants 513781 and 1042231). TMED is supported by a Medical Research Future Fund Practitioner Fellowship (1154192). These funding bodies had no involvement in the study design, data collection, analysis and interpretation of results or writing this manuscript."