Ali, Ahmed Amin
Abdeshafy, Mahmoud Mohamed
Abdelkawy, Khaled
Elsabaa, Ramy M.
Elbarbry, Fawzy http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5238-2712
Article History
Accepted: 31 October 2023
First Online: 25 November 2023
Declarations
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: All authors declare no financial or non-financial conflict of interest, and confirm that the study was approved by the appropriate ethics committee for research involving humans.
: All procedures in this study were in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki declaration (and its amendments). An official permission to conduct the study was obtained from the Research Ethics Committee at Kafrelsheikh University (Ethical Approval Number: KFSIRB200-40; date: October 14, 2021).
: Written informed consent was obtained from all patients in this study or from their relatives if they are not capable of giving consent.
: Not applicable.
: Not applicable.
: The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were done by Mahmoud MA; protocol development and topic selection by Ahmed A; statistical monitoring/analyses by Khaled A and Ramy ME; manuscript reconstruction, language improvement and statistical monitoring/analyses by Fawzy E. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Fawzy Elbarbry and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. All authors agreed on the following statements: (1) made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; (2) drafted the work or revised it critically for important intellectual content; (3) approved the version to be published; and (4) agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.