Tolonen, Ulla http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0564-9920
Lankinen, Maria http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9158-283X
Laakso, Markku http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3394-7749
Schwab, Ursula http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1838-7525
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Eastern Finland
Article History
Received: 18 December 2023
Accepted: 30 May 2024
First Online: 12 June 2024
Declarations
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: METSIM Study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Kuopio University Hospital (number: 174/2004; approval: 29 November 2004) and is conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration.
: All study participants gave written informed consent.
: The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.