Barbieri, Maria Antonietta https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2019-4696
Nielsen, Sidse Marie Neumann
Rossi, Andrea https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6475-2418
Olmastroni, Elena https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7107-243X
Casula, Manuela https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5124-5361
Spina, Edoardo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2509-7449
Sessa, Maurizio https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0874-4744
Funding for this research was provided by:
Open access funding provided by Copenhagen University
Copenhagen University
Article History
Received: 1 July 2024
Accepted: 4 November 2024
First Online: 26 November 2024
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Regional ethics committee approval was not required under Danish law. Individual-level data was stored only at Statistics Denmark. All analyses were performed on aggregated data that did not identify any individual. Data handling followed the guidelines of Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) and the Danish Data Protection Act (Databeskyttelsesloven).
: This study did not involve any animal subjects. As it is a register-based study conducted in Italy, ethical approval is not required.
: Informed consent is not required for register-based studies in Italy, as the data were anonymized and collected as part of routine healthcare procedures.