Dhanoo, Andrew S. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5232-5833
Cockburn, Brian N.
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
Article History
Received: 9 January 2025
Accepted: 14 May 2025
First Online: 24 June 2025
Declarations
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: Dr. Andrew S. Dhanoo and Prof. Brian N. Cockburn declare that they have no conflict of interest. Approval was granted by the Institutional Review Boards of the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus (UWI STA) and the North-Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA) of the Ministry of Health in Trinidad and Tobago. Approval number CEC0111114. IRB approval date May 2018. All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and/or with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. Informed consent or substitute for it was obtained from all patients for being included in the study. Informed consent was obtained from participants or legal guardians on paper-based forms. This article does not contain any studies with animal subjects performed by any of the authors.