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Article History

Received: 9 December 2024

Revised: 23 February 2025

Accepted: 12 April 2025

First Online: 3 June 2025

Compliance with ethical standards

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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Willem Grootjans.

: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article. The studied companies have been informed about the research and the manuscript, their consent about their names being mentioned and that the research does not cause any harm to them is already obtained.

: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.

: Given that the study did not use any patients or animals as subjects, there was no need for informed consent.

: Institutional Review Board approval was not required because the study does not implicate any potential ethical risks to subjects. Nevertheless, we adhered to the ethical guidelines of both involved research institutions, Leiden Medical Centre and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and informed the studied companies about the intentions, processes, and results of our research and have received their consents ascertaining that the study does not cause any harm or violate any other legal or ethical frameworks.

: The study subjects and data are original and have not been reported before in any formal publication.

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