König, Hannah http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4515-8405
Rommel, Alexander http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7253-0535
Thom, Julia
Schmidt, Christian
König, Hans-Helmut http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5711-6862
Brettschneider, Christian http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5280-1075
Konnopka, Alexander http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2605-3456
Funding for this research was provided by:
Projekt DEAL
Article History
Accepted: 4 January 2021
First Online: 1 February 2021
Declarations
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: Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. The DEGS study is conducted by the Robert Koch Institute as part of the Federal Health Monitoring in Germany on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Health. The ministry finances the Robert Koch Institute and gives substantial funds for the Federal Health Monitoring. Three of the authors are employees of the Robert Koch Institute. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The DEGS study protocol was consented with the Federal and State Commissioners for Data Protection and approved by the Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin ethics committee in September 2008 (No. EA2/047/08).
: In DEGS, participants provided written informed consent prior to the interview and examination. In this study, we did not collect data from patients. Only anonymized data was used.
: In DEGS, participants provided written informed consent that the collected anonymized data may be used for research purposes.
: The ‘Health Monitoring’ Research Data Centre at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is accredited by the German Data Forum according to uniform and transparent standards (ExternalRef removed). The DEGS data set is freely accessible on application to interested scientists as de facto anonymized data for scientific secondary analysis. More detailed information on access, application forms and guidelines can be obtained from datennutzung@rki.de.
: The code can be obtained from the corresponding author upon reasonable request after the permitted access to the DEGS data.
: HK and AK designed the study with substantial input from AR, JT, and CB. AR, JT, CS, CB, and AK contributed to the acquisition of data for the article. AK and HK designed the statistical analysis. HK conducted the statistical analysis. HK, AR, JT, HHK, CB, and AK interpreted the data of the work. HK drafted the article with input from AR, JT, CS, HHK, CB, and AK. All authors critically revised the article for important intellectual content. All authors approved the final article.