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Authors
Kocar, Thomas D.
Peranovic, Sara
Labeit, Bendix
Lapa, Sriramya
Muhle, Paul
Suntrup-Krueger, Sonja
Greiner, Tineke
Minor, Julian
Dziewas, Rainer
Stoev, Kiril
Neuendorff, Nina Rosa
Wirth, Rainer
Pourhassan, Maryam
Lueg, Gero
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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Article History
Received: 27 February 2026
Accepted: 5 June 2026
First Online: 16 June 2026
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty of Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (reference number: 22-7741). The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and with local institutional requirements. Owing to the retrospective study design and data collection, the requirement for written informed consent was waived by the ethics committee.
: Not applicable. The manuscript does not contain any individual person’s data in any form.
: Thomas D. Kocar is a member of the editorial board of BMC Geriatrics. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
