Kassem, Sameer https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3588-0338
Gressel, Orit
Samuels, Noah
Stein, Nili
Glaser, Benjamin
Ben-Arye, Eran
Funding for this research was provided by:
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Article History
Received: 14 June 2025
Accepted: 25 February 2026
First Online: 17 March 2026
Declarations
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: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Carmel Medical Center in Haifa, Israel (0024-09-CMC); and registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01860365).
: Participation in this study was voluntary and verified by participants’ consent.
: All authors consented to publication of the present manuscript.
: The authors declare no competing interests.