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Article History

Received: 2 November 2020

Accepted: 19 January 2022

First Online: 14 February 2022

Declarations

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: This study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval for the study was obtained from the ethics commission of the Medical Faculty of the University Duisburg-Essen. Informed consent was obtained for all individual participants included in the study. Permission to access and use of the data by authors employed at the Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Ruhr University Bochum (IPA) was granted upon request by KHJ for the Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Essen University Hospital.

: Not applicable.

: The authors JH, TW, HMK, BK, BP, TBe, and TBr from the Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Ruhr University Bochum (IPA) are employed at the “Berufsgenossenschaft Rohstoffe und chemische Industrie” (BG RCI), a public body, which is a member of the German Social Accident Insurance. The authors are independent from the German Social Accident Insurance in study design, access to the collected data, responsibility for data analysis and interpretation, and the right to publish. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the German Social Accident Insurance. All other authors have disclosed any potential conflicts of interests.