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Funding for this research was provided by:
Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil (SIU-318–853-2014, SIU-411–11-2017)
VitaProject (CUP D18C15000130008)
Article History
Received: 12 October 2019
Accepted: 19 December 2019
First Online: 10 January 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All the authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.
: The research protocol was reviewed and approved by the Ethics and Bioethics Committee of the Enrique C. Sotomayor Hospital. All procedures performed in the present study involving humans were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institution or practice at which the studies were conducted. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: All study participants were informed about the research, its purposes and requested to provide written consent of participation.