Fernandes, Alexandre
Santinha, Gonçalo
Forte, Teresa
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (020.05144.BD)
Article History
Received: 16 June 2025
Accepted: 17 November 2025
First Online: 6 December 2025
Declarations
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: Procedures of this research comply with international standards for human research, in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and were approved by the Ethics Committee of the Clinical Academic Centre Egas Moniz Health Alliance (06-CE-ICVS/CAC-EMHA/20.04.2023), as well as by all relevant ethics committees of the participating hospitals. All participants provided informed consent to take part in the study.
: Not applicable, as no personally identifiable data are included in the manuscript.
: The authors declare no competing interests.