Paixao, Enny S.
Bottomley, Christian
Smeeth, Liam
da Costa, Maria Conceicao N.
Teixeira, Maria Gloria
Ichihara, Maria Yury
Gabrielli, Ligia
Barreto, Mauricio L.
Campbell, Oona M. R.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Wellcome Trust (213589/Z/18/Z, 202912 / Z / 16 / Z)
Article History
Received: 22 September 2020
Accepted: 18 August 2021
First Online: 30 August 2021
Declarations
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: For several years, CIDACS has established a partnership with the Brazilian Ministry of Health to hold, link, curate, and use data for research. CIDACS maintains a linkage system for social and health-related data, following all ethical, legal, privacy, and confidentiality requirements. Ethical approval was obtained from the Federal University of Bahia’s Institute of Public Health Ethics Committee (CAAE registration number: 18022319.4.0000.5030), and patient consent was not required as the study used only de-identified registry-based secondary data.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.