Lorettu, Liliana
Nivoli, Alessandra
Bellizzi, Saverio http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4119-0803
Piu, Davide
Meloni, Roberta
Dore, Maria Pina
Pes, Giovanni M.
Article History
Accepted: 28 October 2021
First Online: 6 November 2021
Declarations
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: Ethics approval and consent to participate were not required, as this is an observational study based on anonymized data routinely collected by the ISTAT, which is a public Italy bodies reporting on health and socio economic determinants (according to Italian law, the study was exempted from approval by an ethics committee because all the data used were deidentified and publicly available). This study is also ethically compliant with the National Law (D.Lgs. 101/2018) and the “General Authorisation to Process Personal Data for Scientific Research Purposes” (nos. 8 and 9 of 2016, referred to in the Data Protection Authority action of December 13, 2018).
: The authors have no conflicts of interest relevant to this article.