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Article History

Received: 21 March 2024

Accepted: 11 September 2024

First Online: 14 October 2024

Declarations

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: Drs. Nicolas Froget, Izabela Kobylińska, Olga Warszawik-Hendzel, Thomas Guidicelli and Julia Gotlib have no conflict of interest to declare. All authors received honoraria from Laboratoires VIVACY for their participation in this study.

: The authors confirm that the ethical policies of the journal, as noted on the journal’s author guidelines page, have been adhered to and the appropriate ethical approvals have been received. The study received favorable ethical approval in each of the participating countries prior to commencement (France: Committee for the Protection of Persons [Comité de Protection des Personnes–CPP] Est I, approved on 11th March 2021, N° SI 21.01.22.75713. Poland: Bioethics Committee of the Regional Chamber of Physicians in Gdansk, 23rd February 2021, KB - 888 / 2021 / 23.02.2021). The SMILE study was registered at the Agence Nationale de Sécurité des Médicaments et des produits de santé (ANSM) (ANSM: 2021-A00089-32) and ClinicalTrials.gov prior to starting recruitment (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04813614). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

: The authors confirm that subjects were aware of and agreed for their photos to be taken. Any photos used in this manuscript had the subject’s prior awareness and approval to be used and published for this purpose.