Cesas, Alvydas
Urbonas, Vincas
Tulyte, Skaiste
Janciauskiene, Rasa
Liutkauskiene, Sigita
Grabauskyte, Ingrida
Gaidamavicius, Ignas
Article History
Received: 11 December 2022
Accepted: 8 February 2023
First Online: 27 February 2023
Declarations
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: The authors have no relevant financial or nonfinancial interests to disclose.
: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Lithuanian bioethics committee (2021-01-04/Nr. L-21-01/1).
: Informed consent forms were collected from prospective study cohort subjects (subjects who continued the treatment and/or routine daily visit monitoring at the date from which individual patient data extraction started). Informed consent forms were not collected from retrospective cohort subjects (data collection conducted entirely using administrative databases or electronic medical records, which do not contain any personal identifier, when it is impossible or too difficult to contact a person due to already completed treatment, discontinued patient monitoring or person death).