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Article History

Received: 10 January 2023

Accepted: 23 November 2023

First Online: 11 December 2023

Declarations

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: This study was performed in accordance with the standards of Good Clinical Practice and the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. The study protocol guaranteed the fulfilment of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons regarding the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data. It also fulfilled Spanish Organic Law 3/2018 of 5 December on the Protection of Personal Data and the Guarantee of Digital Rights. This study was approved by the Parc de Salut Mar Clinical Research Ethics Committee (CEIm-PSMAR) (Research Protocol no. 2020/9119). The need for informed consent was waived by the Parc de Salut Mar Clinical Research Ethics Committee owing to its registry-based design. The research team committed itself to the strict use of data for the present study. In addition, a linkage protocol agreement between the Centre for Research in Occupational Health at Pompeu Fabra University, the National Social Security Institute, and the Catalonian Institute for Medical Evaluations guaranteed the maintenance of confidentiality in providing the identified datasets to the authors.

: Consent for publication is not applicable for this study.

: The authors declare no competing interests.