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First Online: 28 April 2020

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: The authors declare that they have 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. This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the University Center Dr. Leão Sampaio under number 2.240.407.

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