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Article History

Received: 13 March 2024

Accepted: 23 June 2024

First Online: 13 July 2024

Declarations

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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest in relation to this article.

: The analysis of routinely collected mortality records is a mandatory activity of the Epidemiology Department according to the regional law (LR n11 February 16, 2010 – institution of the mortality registry; DGR n14 January 11, 2011 – assignment of the registry to the Epidemiology Department). Therefore, this study is exempt from Institutional Review Board approval.

: This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.

: Analyses were carried out on routinely collected anonymized mortality records and no informed consent was required.