Malamoudi, Georgia A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4316-0886
Tsachouridou, Ioanna
Menexes, Georgios
Mikrogeorgis, Georgios
Tortopidis, Dimitrios
Tsalikis, Lazaros
Article History
Received: 30 October 2022
Accepted: 16 January 2023
First Online: 25 January 2023
Declarations
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: 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 study was approved by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Ethics committee (AUTH Protocol #30/03–05-2017). The study was registered retrospectively in the clinicaltrials.gov registry (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03947658, 13/05/2019). The study meets the CONSORT requirements for randomized trials and CONSORT 2010 checklist and flow diagram are provided. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: All authors reviewed this manuscript and consented to publishing.
: The authors declare no competing interests.