Rousing, Isabella Gringer
Vedsted, Peter
Hjertholm, Peter
Kallestrup, Per
Baun, Marie-Louise Ladegaard
Virgilsen, Line Flytkjaer
Article History
Received: 1 October 2022
Accepted: 21 August 2023
First Online: 30 August 2023
Declarations
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: The study is part of the PanOvar project, which is recorded in the research register at the Research Unit for General Practice (ID: 1664) in accordance with the Danish regulations on data protection and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union. According to Danish law, approval was not required from the Committee on Health Research Ethics in the Central Denmark Region, as no biomedical intervention was performed [CitationRef removed]. Statistics Denmark approved the project and the registers used in the study. According to the Danish Data Protection Act, no patient consent was required as scientific studies of significant societal importance are exempted hereof.
: Register-based studies need no consent for publication from included patients according to the Danish Data Protection Act as stated above. The use of anonymised data from Statistics Denmark ensured that no individuals could be identified.
: The authors declare no competing interests.