Alsamara, Kinda
Kakaje, Ameer http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3949-6109
Soqia, Jameel
Ghareeb, Amjad
Watson, Loretta
Hadakie, Rana
Jawich, Kenda
Al-Homsi, Alaa
Forbes, David
Article History
Accepted: 18 January 2024
First Online: 15 February 2024
Declarations
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: Authors have no conflict of interest to declare.
: The study was approved by the local ethics committee of Damascus University, Faculty of Medicine. All participants agreed to participate, and informed consent was obtained from all subjects. This study did not include participants younger than 18 years old. The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. All procedures involving human subjects/patients were approved by Damascus University, Faculty of Medicine.