Janeckova, Katarina
Siarnik, Pavel
Kollar, Branislav
Waczulikova, Iveta
Wawruch, Martin
Poddany, Michal
Celovska, Denisa
Funding for this research was provided by:
Vedecká Grantová Agentúra MŠVVaŠ SR a SAV (1/0022/23)
Vedecká Grantová Agentúra MŠVVaŠ SR a SAV (1/0075/25)
Agentúra na Podporu Výskumu a Vývoja (APVV-23-0028)
Agentúra na Podporu Výskumu a Vývoja (APVV-22-0154)
Comenius University in Bratislava
Article History
Received: 9 December 2025
Revised: 4 February 2026
Accepted: 10 February 2026
First Online: 26 February 2026
Declarations
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: Denisa Celovska is the president of Slovak Society of Angiology (unpaid). The other authors declare no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Old Town Hospital, University Hospital Bratislava.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.