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Article History

Received: 3 December 2025

Accepted: 12 April 2026

First Online: 28 April 2026

Declarations

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: Ucarer C.R., Peterson G.M., Curtain C.M., and Salahudeen M.S. have no potential conflicts of interest to declare that are relevant to the content of this article. Salahudeen M.S. is an Editorial Board member of Drugs & Aging. Salahudeen M.S. was not involved in the selection of peer reviewers for the manuscript nor any of the subsequent editorial decisions.

: Not applicable.

: All authors have provided their consent, and no additional consent for publication was required.

: CRU was involved in the conception of this review, drafted the initial protocol, performed database searching, selected studies for inclusion and exclusion, critically appraised the included studies, conducted the analysis, and wrote the manuscript. GMP, CMC, and MSS were involved in the conception of the review, critical review of the draft protocol, in study selection, appraisal of the included studies, evaluation of the statistical analysis, and critical review of the manuscript. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript for submission.

: Not required for this systematic review, as it involved the analysis of previously published studies and did not include the collection of primary data from human participants.

: The datasets supporting the conclusions of this article are provided within the main text and its supplementary (S) information files.

: No custom code was developed for this systematic review.