Document is current

Article History

Accepted: 10 September 2024

First Online: 24 September 2024

Declarations

:

: This study was supported financially by grants from Region Västerbotten, Umeå University Foundation for Medical Research, Forte (ref: 2017-01438) and the Swedish Research Council (ref: 2019-01078). The funders have no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript.

: Maria Gustafsson is an Editorial Board member of <i>Drugs – Real World Outcomes</i>. Maria Gustafsson was not involved in the selection of peer reviewers for the manuscript nor any of the subsequent editorial decisions. Ema Gasi and Jonas Kindstedt declare no conflicts of interest.

: The study was approved by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority (registration numbers 2020-05426, 2020-03699, 2017-69-31, 2018-254-32, 2018-83-32 and 2024-03795-02) and performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.

: All study participants gave their consent to provide data for the study, and in cases of confirmed diagnosis of major NCD, the next of kin also approved.

: The datasets generated during and/or analysed in the present study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

: Not applicable.

: EG and JK wrote this manuscript. EG and JK performed the descriptive and analytical statistics. All listed authors provided feedback regarding the final study design, contributed to the revision of the study protocol, were involved in the review process of the manuscript, approved the final version and will ensure that issues related to the accuracy or integrity of the work are investigated and resolved.