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Accepted: 27 November 2024

First Online: 14 December 2024

Declarations

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: This study was funded by the DZNE Foundation—for a life without dementia, Parkinson’s and ALS (T 0531/34137/2019/kg).

: The authors have no relevant financial or nonfinancial interests to disclose.

: Ethical approval for this study was obtained by the University Medicine Greifswald's ethics committee (BB 01/2019).

: If patients were eligible, the healthcare professionals provided written and oral information about the study and asked for patients’ and caregivers’ written informed consent (IC). If patients could not provide written informed consent, legal representatives were asked to provide the informed consent on behalf of the patient.

: The patients were informed about the storage, evaluation, transmission, and publication of the anonymized data following the Guidelines and recommendations for ensuring good epidemiological practice (GEP). Consent for publication was obtained through written informed consent.

: The data used in the analysis is available upon request from the authors, in compliance with ethical and data protection regulations.

: The author’s code used in the present analysis is available upon reasonable request.

: M.P. performed the analysis and wrote the manuscript; B.M. and W.H. significantly contributed to the manuscript; B.M. significantly contributed to the design and methods used for the analysis and revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.