Atzeni, M.
Cappon, G.
Quint, J. K.
Kelly, F.
Barratt, B.
Vettoretti, M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) under the PON initiative (Grant Reference Number: DOT1319501-3)
Article History
Received: 24 July 2024
Accepted: 31 December 2024
First Online: 18 January 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests. The corresponding author is responsible for submitting a competing interests statement on behalf of all authors of the paper.
: All the analyses performed in this work were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. All participants gave written informed consent at the recruitment wave to participate in the study and at each subsequent wave. The Research Ethics Committee for Camden and Islington provided ethical approval for the study (14/LO/2216). Approval was also granted by NHS Research and Development and the use of CPRD GOLD data was approved by the CPRD Independent Scientific Advisory Committee. The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the relevant national and institutional committees’ ethical standards on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008