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Article History

Received: 11 May 2025

Accepted: 7 October 2025

First Online: 28 October 2025

Declarations

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: All authors report no relationships that could be construed as a conflict of interest. All authors take responsibility for all aspects of the reliability and freedom from bias of the data presented and their discussed interpretation.

: This study was exempt from Institutional Review Board approval and patient consent, as it is a meta-analysis based exclusively on previously published, de-identified data from randomized controlled trials. Since no new data involving human participants were collected or analyzed, ethical approval was not required.

: For this type of study, formal consent is not required.