Izsak, Julia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4990-3545
Kimland, Elin E.
Martikainen, Jari
Dahlén, Elin
Halldner, Linda
Kindblom, Jenny M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Vetenskapsrådet (2021-01439)
Hjärt-Lungfonden (20220620)
Hjärt-Lungfonden (20220406)
The Swedish state under the agreement between the Swedish government and the county councils, the ALF-agreement (ALFGBG-965996)
University of Gothenburg
Article History
Received: 4 June 2025
Accepted: 16 October 2025
First Online: 5 November 2025
Declarations
:
: None of the authors has any conflict of interest. EEK is employed by the Swedish Medical Products Agency. The views expressed in this study are the personal views of the authors and not necessarily the view of the government agency.
: The BMI Epidemiology Study Gothenburg has been approved by the ethics committee of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden (D-nr 013-10, date of approval 28 January 2010).
: The need for informed consent was waived by the ethics committee of the University of Gothenburg.
: Not applicable.
: The data are not publicly available due to privacy and ethical reasons. Anonymised data can be made available upon reasonable request to the corresponding author and with approval from the University of Gothenburg, in accordance with national law.
: The code for data extraction and analysis in this study can be provided by the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
: JI contributed to the conceptualisation of the study, analysed the data, and drafted the manuscript. EEK, ED, and LH contributed to the interpretation of the data. JM contributed to statistical analysis. JMK conceptualised the study and supervised the project and manuscript preparation. All authors reviewed and critically revised the manuscript and approved the final version.