Meling, Heidi Marie
Baste, Valborg
Ruths, Sabine
Anderssen, Norman
Haukenes, Inger
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Research Council of Norway (287884)
The Research Council of Norway (287884)
The Research Council of Norway (287884)
The Research Council of Norway (287884)
The Research Council of Norway (287884)
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS
Article History
Received: 12 October 2024
Accepted: 10 February 2025
First Online: 19 February 2025
Declarations
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: The Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics, Region West, approved the project (2017/934/REK vest) and waived the requirement of informed consent for the study. Norwegian Data Protection Authority approved using the data for research purposes in this project (17/01372–2/SBO). The register owners, Statistics Norway, the Norwegian Directorate of Health, and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, approved the linkage of registries. The data were pseudo-anonymized by a third party (Statistics Norway) and analyzed at the group level to minimize the risk of backwards identification of individuals. All analyses were carried out, and methods were used in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations (Declaration of Helsinki).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.