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© The Author(s) 2014. Acknowledgements We thank the Information Services Division, Scotland, who provided the SMR01 data, and NHS Grampian, who provided the biochemistry data. We also thank the University of Aberdeen’s Data Management Team. Funding This work was supported by the Chief Scientists Office for Scotland (grant no. CZH/4/656).

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Acknowledgements We thank all the participants who took part, the research fellows (Kate Taylor, Robert Caslake, David McGhee, Angus Macleod) and nurses (Clare Harris, Joanna Gordon, Anne Hayman, Hazel Forbes) who helped assess the participants, and the study secretaries (Susan Kilpatrick, Pam Rebecca) and data management team (Katie Wilde, David Ritchie). The PINE study was funded by the BMA Doris Hillier award, Parkinson's UK, the RS McDonald Trust, NHS Grampian Endowments, SPRING and the BUPA Foundation. None of the funders had any influence in the study design, the collection, analysis and interpretation of the data, the writing of the report or the decision to submit the article for publication.