Kavcic, Niko http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4633-3906
Avsenak, Andrej
Zmazek, Jan
Serdinsek, Tamara
But, Igor
Article History
Received: 6 May 2024
Accepted: 15 July 2024
First Online: 23 August 2024
Declarations
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: N. Kavcic, A. Avsenak, J. Zmazek, T. Serdinsek and I. But declare that they have no competing interests.
: Institutional Review Board Statement: this study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by The National Medical Ethics Committee of the Republic of Slovenia (approval number 0120-44/2018/5; date of approval 22/02/2018). The trial was registered as an internal research project at our institution: University Medical Centre Maribor (project number IRP-2018/01-14). The trial was also retrospectively registered on clinicaltrials.gov (registration number NCT06250543). Informed consent statement: informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the study.