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Article History

Received: 5 January 2021

Accepted: 2 March 2021

First Online: 9 March 2021

Declarations

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: Ethics committee approval or informed consent were not required according to the Finnish legislation (Personal Data Act) because only de-identified, routinely collected register data was used and the study participants were not contacted. The MEDALZ study protocol was approved by the register maintainers (Statistics Finland, SII, and National Institute of Health and Welfare) and the University of Eastern Finland.

: Not applicable.

: SH received lecture fees from Astellas Pharma. BR and A-MT report no competing interests.