Cohort profile : the Scottish Diabetes Research Network national diabetes cohort - a population-based cohort of people with diabetes in Scotland

Acknowledgments We acknowledge with gratitude the contributions of people with diabetes, NHS staff and organisations (the Scottish Care Information-Diabetes development team and Steering Group, the Scottish Diabetes Group, the Scottish Diabetes Survey Group, the diabetes managed clinical networks) involved in providing data, setting up, maintaining and overseeing collation of data for people with diabetes in Scotland. Data linkage is performed by colleagues at Public Health Scotland. We acknowledge the financial support of NHS Research Scotland (NRS), through Diabetes Network. The NHS Research Scotland Diabetes Network (formerly Scottish Diabetes Research Network) receives funding from the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government. Funding Work described here has been supported by Chief Scientist Office Scotland (Ref. ETM/47) and by Diabetes UK (Ref. 17/0005627)Peer reviewedPublisher PD