Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (MX00D87319)
Article History
Received: 29 August 2025
Revised: 28 January 2026
Accepted: 6 February 2026
First Online: 20 February 2026
Declarations
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: All ethics approval and consent to participate for the human data were appropriately collected in the original TEK publication by Bethel et al., . From the publication, an application was submitted to the University of New Orleans’ Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects in Research (IRB) for review, where the board declared the application research and procedures exempt from IRB protocol (UNO IRB#: 04Jan16).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.