Sharif Nia, Hamid
She, Long
Fomani, Fatemeh Khoshnavay
Kaur, Harpaljit
Sánchez-Teruel, David
Froelicher, Erika Sivarajan
Kohestani, Daniyal http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9174-6662
Article History
Accepted: 5 August 2021
First Online: 22 August 2021
Declarations
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: There are no conflicts of interest by any of the authors of this study. All authors have participated in (a) conception and design or analysis and interpretation of the data; (b) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and (c) approval of the final version. This manuscript has not been submitted to, nor is under review at, another journal or other publishing venue. The authors have no affiliation with any organization with a direct or indirect financial interest in the subject matter discussed in the manuscript. 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 1964 and its later amendments. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.
: The current study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Mazandaran province, north of Iran, (Code: IR.MAZUMS.REC.1400.10523). We also followed ethical principles in this study, including: informing the participants about the goals and process of the study, reporting the results while maintaining the patient’s independence, informing the participation about the voluntary of participating in the study, and getting informed consent to participate in the study from all participants.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.