Leckning, Bernard https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5901-4579
Borschmann, Rohan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9855-8181
Hirvonen, Tanja
Silburn, Sven R.
Guthridge, Steven
Robinson, Gary W.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Charles Darwin University
Article History
Received: 6 September 2025
Accepted: 6 February 2026
First Online: 27 February 2026
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: For this study was provided by the Human and Research Ethics Committees of the NT Department of Health and Menzies School of Health Research (Ref: 15–392) and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (Ref: 2013-3-31) for linkage to national mortality records used in this study for censoring. A waiver of consent was granted under this approval according to Sect. 2.3.9 of the 2018 NHRMC National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research.