Bajracharya, Snehi
Salwa, Aniqua
Hassan, Arham
Vujanovic, Anka A.
Montemayor, Benjamin N. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3330-1323
Funding for this research was provided by:
Texas A&M University Health Science Center
Article History
Received: 13 October 2025
Accepted: 27 December 2025
First Online: 5 February 2026
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 (5). All procedures were vetted and approved by the local university’s Institutional Review Board (IRB number: 2023–1136 Exempt).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The authors declare no competing interests.