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Accepted: 6 March 2025

First Online: 29 March 2025

Declarations

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: This study is partly funded by an “Interdisciplinary Research Program” grant (grant no. IRP3, IRP12, and IRP22) from the research council of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). The funders had no role in the study design, collection, analyses, interpretation of the data, writing the manuscript, or the decision to publish the results.

: Each participant gave written informed consent.

: Not applicable.

: Not applicable.

: Financial: The authors declare they have no financial interests. Non-financial: Mirko PETROVIC is an Editorial Board Member of Drugs and Aging. Mirko PETROVIC was not involved in the selection of peer reviewers for the manuscript, nor in the subsequent editorial decisions.

: The ethics committee of the University Hospital of Brussels (UZ Brussels, Jette) gave permission for this study (B.U.N. 143201421976).

: Ivan Bautmans conceived the study and secured the funding. Aziz Debain, Fien Loosveldt, Veerle Knoop, and Axelle Costenoble contributed to the data collection. Aziz Debain, Fien Loosveldt, Jordy Saren, and Ivan Bautmans contributed to the data analysis and interpretation. Aziz Debain wrote the original manuscript draft. Fien Loosveldt, Veerle Knoop, Axelle Costenoble, Jordy Saren, Mirko Petrovic, and Ivan Bautmans commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

: The datasets and/or data analyses used during the current study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.