Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (BD/09368/2021, Pluriannual Funding Programme for Research Units 2020-2023 UIDP/00050/2020, Pluriannual Funding Programme for Research Units 2020-2023 UIDP/00050/2020)
Instituto Universitário da Maia
Article History
Accepted: 22 May 2025
First Online: 24 June 2025
Declarations
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: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study. We obtained authorizations from the institutional Ethics Committee of the authors as well as informed consent from all participants (approval references 1/2020 and 80/2023).
: Open Data: The information needed to reproduce all of the reported results is not openly accessible. Further information can be requested from the authors.Open Materials: The information needed to reproduce all of the reported methodology is not openly accessible. Further information can be requested from the authors.Open Analytic Code: The code is not openly accessible.
: Maria Moutinho, Tiago Ferreira and Carla Cunha declare that they have no conflict of interests.