Lehmann, Ana Lucia Cruz Fürstenberger
Alfieri, Daniela Frizon http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0217-9329
de Araújo, Maria Caroline Martins
Trevisani, Emanuelle Roberto
Nagao, Maisa Rocha
Pesente, Francisco Spessatto
Gelinski, Jair Roberto
de Freitas, Leonardo Bodner
Flauzino, Tamires
Lehmann, Márcio Francisco
Lozovoy, Marcell Alysson Batisti http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4023-9548
Breganó, José Wander
Simão, Andréa Name Colado http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2073-6782
Maes, Michael
Reiche, Edna Maria Vissoci http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6507-2839
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação Araucária
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Article History
Received: 8 September 2020
Accepted: 14 June 2021
First Online: 4 August 2021
Declarations
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: There is no conflict of interest to declare. None of the authors are involved in the publication process or have a financial or other beneficial interest in the products or concepts mentioned in the submitted manuscript.
: The protocol was approved by the Institutional Research Ethics Committees of University of Londrina, Paraná, Brazil (CAAE: (CAAE 61361416.9.0000.5231) and all of the individuals invited were informed in detail about the research and gave written Informed Consent.
: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Institution and/or National Research Committee and with the World Medical Association 1964 Helsinki Declaration.
: The manuscript was prepared taken into account the recommendations of the guidelines hosted by the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational studies in Epidemiology (STROBE). STROBE is used for observational studies (cohort, case–control, or cross-sectional designs) according to the STROBE statement (ExternalRef removed).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The studied participants were informed about the present research, and a written consent form was taken from all of them before their enrollment. Moreover, all the authors and co-authors participated and contributed sufficiently in the research, and all of them concur with the submission. The manuscript has been approved by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out. The authors also concur that, if accepted, the manuscript shall not be published elsewhere in the same form in either the same or any other language, without the consent of the Editor-in Chief of <i>Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases.</i>