Souza, Júlio C. M. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7999-4009
Soares, Catarina
Fernandes, Valter
Carvalho, Oscar
Silva, Filipe
Özcan, Mutlu
Henriques, Bruno
Funding for this research was provided by:
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031035, UID/EEA/04436/2013, SFRH/BPD/123769)
Universität Zürich
Universidade do Minho
Article History
Received: 13 March 2023
Accepted: 8 May 2023
First Online: 31 May 2023
Declarations
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: All the authors declare that there is no conflict of interests.
: All procedures performed involving human participants followed the ethics standards of the research committee of the University Institute of Health Sciences (IUCS) at Cooperativa Ensino Superior Politécnico Universitário (CESPU), Portugal, and therefore with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethics standards. The project for the present study was previously reviewed and approved by the IUCS Ethics committe with the following Ethics Protocols Reference Number: CE/IUCS/CESPU-18/2022.
: Informed consent was unnecessary following the national regulations and since all data were processed anonymously. The need for informed consent was waived by the ethics committee/Institutional Review Board of IUCS at CESPU, Portugal.
: Not applicable.