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Article History

Received: 26 October 2023

Accepted: 9 January 2025

First Online: 14 April 2025

Declarations

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: A flyer in the GP waiting room informed patients about the study. GPs presented the study to patients at the beginning of the consultation and obtained their written informed consent. The ECOGEN study was declared to the French competent authorities: Comité consultatif sur le traitement de l’information en matière de recherche dans le domaine de la santé (CCTIRS, n° 11605), Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL, n° 1549782). An ethics committee approved the ECOGEN study (CPP Sud-Est IV, Lyon, France, registration number: L11-149, approval date: 10/11/2011) and included consent for ancillary studies on the ECOGEN database. All procedures performed in the study involving human participants were in accordance with the national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.