Kaur, Navpreet
Lewsey, Jim
Carlin, Christopher https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8520-7224
Ho, Frederick
Walker, Eve
Geue, Claudia
Mackay, Daniel
Friday, Jocelyn
Padmanabhan, Sandosh
Pell, Jill P.
Dundas, Ruth
Tran, Tran Q. B.
Brown, Denise
Hastie, Claire
Fleming, Michael
Stevenson, Alan
du Toit, Clea
Funding for this research was provided by:
UKRI Strength in Places Fund (SIPF00007/1)
Article History
Received: 29 October 2025
Accepted: 24 April 2026
First Online: 26 May 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: Delegated research ethics approval was granted for linkage to National Health Service (NHS) patient data by the Local Privacy and Advisory Committee at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.Cohorts and de-identified linked data were prepared by the West of Scotland Safe Haven Research Database at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (IRAS Project ID 321198, REC reference 22/WS/1063).Informed consent was deemed unnecessary for this secondary data linkage project according to the Local Privacy and Advisory Committee at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. This study adhered to the Declaration of Helsinki.The data used in the projects is unconsented health data collected during routine clinical care, and its use has been approved by the NHS GGC Local Privacy Advisory Committee. Consent from patients is not applicable.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.