Leppänen, Helena http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1051-3200
Kampman, Olli http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6891-2266
Autio, Reija http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6519-2715
Karolaakso, Tino http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7875-8079
Näppilä, Turkka http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0562-7254
Rissanen, Päivi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4779-6221
Pirkola, Sami http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0138-3130
Article History
Received: 14 February 2022
Accepted: 20 July 2022
First Online: 1 August 2022
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 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 stated in Declarations of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: None declared.