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Received: 25 April 2025

Accepted: 5 June 2025

First Online: 3 July 2025

Declarations

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: In Finland, according to the current legislation (Medical Research Act 488/1999), register studies with no identifiable individual patients and with no contact with the patients require no ethical committee. approval. Consent to participate was unnecessary, because all patients were anonymized. The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare maintains the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register and granted the permission to access the anonymized patient data.

: Consent for publication was unnecessary, because all patients were anonymized.

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: P.L. participated in the conception and design of the study, acquisition and analysis of the data, interpretation of data, drafting the and revising the manuscript. K.H. participated in the conception and design of the study, acquisition and analysis of the data, interpretation of data and revising the manuscript draft. P.L. and K.H. read and approved the final manuscript.