Fink, Anne
Doerre, Achim
Demuth, Ilja
Doblhammer, Gabriele
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V. (DZNE) in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Article History
Received: 21 June 2021
Accepted: 19 April 2022
First Online: 26 April 2022
Declarations
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: All data of the Human Mortality Database (HMD) are publicly available on an aggregate basis. Consequently, no ethics approval was necessary.Access to the health claims data was granted and approved by the Scientific Institute of the AOK (WIdO), while access to the complete database was not possible, due to current data protection regulations. All analyses of this study are based on anonymized administrative claims data which never identify patients directly. As individuals are anonymous, the results presented here do not in any way affect the persons whose records were used. No ethical approval was required, therefore this study complies with the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.