Rus, Alma http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5547-5279
López-Sánchez, José Alberto http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1357-0008
Martínez-Martos, José Manuel http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2950-5614
Ramírez-Expósito, María Jesús http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9379-203X
Molina, Francisco http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3000-1325
Correa-Rodríguez, María http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9165-4349
Aguilar-Ferrándiz, María Encarnación http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7596-2445
Funding for this research was provided by:
Consejería de Economía, Conocimiento, Empresas y Universidad, Junta de Andalucía (A-CTS-120-UGR20)
Article History
Accepted: 19 September 2023
First Online: 16 October 2023
Declarations
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: This work has been supported by FEDER/Junta de Andalucía-Consejería de Transformación Económica, Industria, Conocimiento y Universidades (Spain)/Grant number: A-CTS-120-UGR20.
: All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: This case–control study was carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association (WMA). The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Granada (Spain) (approval number: 1797-N-17).
: All participants provided written informed consent and did not receive financial incentive.
: Not applicable.
: Not applicable.
: Alma Rus contributed to analysis and interpretation of results, drafted the manuscript, critically revised the manuscript, and gave final approval. José Alberto López-Sánchez contributed to analysis of results, critically revised the manuscript, and gave final approval. José Manuel Martínez-Martos and María Jesús Ramírez-Expósito performed the laboratory experiments, critically revised the manuscript, and gave final approval. Francisco Molina contributed to conception and data acquisition, critically revised the manuscript, and gave final approval. María Correa-Rodríguez and María Encarnación Aguilar-Ferrándiz contributed to conception and design, data acquisition, critically revised the manuscript, and gave final approval.