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Article History

Received: 24 February 2021

Accepted: 15 July 2021

First Online: 28 July 2021

Declarations

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: Authors have any potential conflict of interest, real or perceived; without study sponsor, in study design, the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, the writing of the report, and the decision to submit the paper for publication. No honorarium, grant, or other form of payment was given to anyone to produce the manuscript.

: This study was approved by our regional review board for people protection (CPP-NO-IV: no. 2015 A00950 49-CPP 15 64).

: The scoliotic adolescents, and the controls, and their legal guardians, were given written and oral information (complete, fair and clear) about use of their medical charts for research purposes. Data were examined anonymously, in compliance with the Helsinki Declaration of patients.

: This information was included in the written information for the adolescents and their legal guardians.