Asef Agah, Seyed Amir https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3818-0708
Yousefi, Farbod
Hosseini, Mohammad Mehdi
Ghasemi, Moein
Kaviani Charati, Hossein
Mansoori Nia, Arash
Akbarizadeh Mashkani, Mohammad Hadi https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4765-5641
Azarpey, Neda https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6933-2855
Azizi, Ashkan
Amini, Behnam https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6295-0058
Article History
Received: 3 August 2025
Revised: 8 December 2025
Accepted: 21 December 2025
First Online: 25 February 2026
Declarations
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: Not applicable. This is a systematic review and meta-analysis of previously published studies. Therefore, institutional review board approval was not required.
: Not applicable. As this study was a meta-analysis of previously published data, consent from individual participants was not required.
: Not applicable. The manuscript does not contain any individual person’s data in any form.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Clinical trial number: not applicable. This study is a meta-analysis and was not registered as a clinical trial.