Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitetet i Tromsø
Article History
Received: 7 April 2019
Accepted: 6 May 2020
First Online: 13 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Submission of data to the GBR is mandatory by law for pregnant women in Georgia. The dataset was completely anonymized before analysis. The National Center for Disease Control and Public Health Institutional Review Board in Georgia has approved the study - protocol (IRB # 2017–010 31.03.2017). In addition, the Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics (REC) of Northern Norway concluded that no permission from them is necessary (2017/404/REK Nord). In addition, the legal department at UiT the Arctic University of Norway has concluded that no further permissions from the National Centre for Research Data were needed.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.