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Article History

Received: 1 November 2021

Accepted: 24 January 2022

First Online: 22 February 2022

Declarations

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: The Regional Ethical Review Board in Gothenburg approved the study (registration number 614-15 and T170-16 and T547-17). Since this is a register-based study, and the data were anonymized, no consent was obtained from the participants.

: Not applicable

: I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests:CK has research grants for clinical trial Assar Gabrielsson’s Foundation for Cancer-Related Clinical Research, Hjalmar Svensson’s Research Foundation. She is presently head of one Swedish site of a multicenter international academic clinical HPV-vaccine trial where the sponsor, Imperial College, London, receive some support from MSD. She is a member of the Screening and colposcopy national guidelines committee, and she is the secretary of The Swedish Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Cancer Prevention/C-ARG. She has received reimbursement from Gedeon Richter for lectures on meeting arranged by the company.BS has research grants for clinical trial by the Governmental agreement with Swedish counties, ALF, and by the Region of Västra Götaland. He is presently Swedish head of a multicenter international academic clinical HPV-vaccine trial where the sponsor, Imperial College, London, receive some support from MSD. The past 5 years he has served as chairman of the Swedish Cervical screening coordinating committee, as chairman of the Screening and colposcopy national guidelines committee, and as head of the Cervical screening process register. He has been a member of the National Board of health and welfare evaluation committee for the Cervical screening program. He has received no financial support or reimbursement from commercial companies for any activity.BJ has research grants from the Swedish Research Council, the Research Council of Norway, the March of Dimes, and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. During the last five years, he has performed clinical diagnostic trials for Ariosa, Natera, Vanadis, and Hologic with reimbursement costs per recruited patient. He has conducted clinical trials on probiotics in pregnancy in collaboration with BioGaia and FukoPharma. He has also been involved in the IMPACT study where Roche and Thermo Fisher paid for PLGF-analyzes. He has also arranged educational meeting with commercial partners on NIPT and preeclampsia screening (2017). No lectures, travel, or personal reimbursements from the companies.