Ali, Saqib
Ali, Sakhawat
Bilal, Syed Fakhar
ur Rehman, Khalil
Shaukat, Zeeshan
Khan, Ahmed
Khurram, Rooha
Article History
Received: 7 July 2024
Revised: 31 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2025
First Online: 31 July 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
: Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval was obtained, from Islamabad Diagnostic Centre (IDC) (Pvt) Ltd, Institutional Review Board (Approval number: MR-20-2543). All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or local research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: This study has an IRB approval of an informed consent waiver. The need for informed consent was waived by the ethics committee of Islamabad Diagnostic Centre (Pvt) Ltd, Institutional Review Board because a local private dataset was used for the study after obtaining approval.