Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Gothenburg
Article History
Received: 22 August 2023
Accepted: 13 June 2024
First Online: 20 June 2024
Declarations
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: Ethical approval was granted by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority on May 21, 2022, Sweden. Reg.no.: 2022-02601-02. Included data was retrieved from governmental health care register with all public funded health care. Patients informed consent to participate of the VEGA register is approved when submitting to public health care as a patient. All applications to retrieve data from the VEGA register must include an ethical approval from the Swedish Ethical Review Authority. The retrieved data from the VEGA register was aggregated to the authors and with no possibility to identify unique individuals or personally identifiable data. Sex is defined by the social security number by the VEGA register and the retrieved data was therefore arranged by sex and not gender, and no social security number were included. Informed consent was obtained from all patients and/or their legal guardian(s) through the public health care registries used within the study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare they have no competing interests.