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Article History
Received: 16 February 2026
Revised: 5 March 2026
Accepted: 15 March 2026
First Online: 23 March 2026
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of the University Hospital of Ioannina (Approval No. 382/5–5-2016).
: Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: None.