Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (1047725)
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (RGPIN-2016-03698)
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (172743/2023-0)
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (2023/10778-0)
Hamad bin Khalifa University
Article History
Received: 2 January 2025
Accepted: 13 May 2025
First Online: 4 June 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare no financial or non-financial interests that are directly or indirectly related to the work submitted for publication.
: This study was approved by the Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board at the University of Calgary (REB18-0916) and conformed to the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in this study. The participants consented to the publication of their results.