Wierzba, Karol https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1257-4047
Chmielewski, Michał https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8126-8786
Błeszyńska-Marunowska, Emilia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7816-189X
Jagiełło, Kacper https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7138-5049
Wierucki, Łukasz https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2995-6180
Zdrojewski, Tomasz https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6015-8561
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministerstwo Zdrowia (contract No. 6/5/4.2/NPZ/2017/1203/1257 1257 for the implementation of the task in the field of public health of the Operational Objective No. 5 points 4.2. of the National Health Program for years 2016–2020)
Article History
Accepted: 9 January 2025
First Online: 28 January 2025
Declarations
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: The data that support the findings of this study are not openly available owing to reasons of sensitivity and are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. Data are located in controlled access data storage at the Medical University of Gdansk. Copyrights regarding the medical database belong to the Ministry of Health.
: Not applicable.Author ContributionAll authors made substantial contributions to this work. K.W., M.C., E.B.-M., K.J., Ł.W., and T.Z. conceived the study; K.W., E.B.-M., K.J., Ł.W., and T.Z. designed the study, acquired the data, and performed the analyses; K.W., M.C., K.J., and T.Z. interpreted the data; K.W. and M.C. drafted the manuscript; K.W. coordinated the feedback from the co-authors; E.B.-M., Ł.W., K.J., M.C., and T.Z. substantially revised the manuscript. All authors have read and approved the published version of the manuscript.
: All authors certify that they have no affiliation with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest or nonfinancial interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.
: The PolSenior2 project meets the ethical requirements of the European Union (Directive 2001/20/EC) and was approved by the Independent Bioethics Commission of the Medical University of Gdansk (NKBBN/257/2017).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: This paper was implemented under contract no. 6/5/4.2/NPZ/2017/1203/1257 for the implementation of the task in the field of public health of the Operational Objective no. 5 point 4.2. of the National Health Program for years 2016–2020, entitled “Health Status and its Socio-economic Covariates of the Older Population in Poland—the Nationwide PolSenior2 Survey” (PolSenior2).