Karolaakso, Tino
Autio, Reija
Näppilä, Turkka
Leppänen, Helena
Rissanen, Päivi
Tuomisto, Martti T.
Karvonen, Sakari
Pirkola, Sami
Article History
Received: 26 March 2021
Accepted: 23 September 2021
First Online: 11 October 2021
Declarations
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: The RETIRE – study has the approval of the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) Ethics Committee, including a privacy statement, which has performed a careful ethical consideration of this study paying particular attention to voluntariness-, consent- and data protection issues. During the study, the subjects of the register data were not contacted personally, and no individual people can be identified from the processed register data. According to Finnish legislation, and in accordance with the appraisal and approval of the THL Ethics Committee, individual informed consent was not required, because no individual could be identified due to the size of the study’s population. Licenses were obtained for the registers from each of the registrars. All study methods were carried out in accordance with ethical and privacy protection guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.