Chong, Norman https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0206-8331
Azwa, Iskandar
Hassan, Asfarina Amir
Mousavi, Mohammad
Wong, Pui Li
Ng, Rong Xiang
Saifi, Rumana
Basri, Sazali
Omar, Sharifah Faridah Syed
Walters, Suzan M.
Collier, Zachary K.
Haddad, Marwan S.
Altice, Frederick L.
Kamarulzaman, Adeeba
Earnshaw, Valerie A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of New South Wales
Article History
Accepted: 12 July 2025
First Online: 21 July 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: 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 received institutional review board approval from the University of Delaware (1588354), the National Medical Research Register (21-788-59486), and the University of Malaya Medical Centre (202047-846).
: All participants provided informed consent.