Knechtle, Beat https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2412-9103
Valero, David https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4133-4843
Villiger, Elias https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8371-1390
Scheer, Volker https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0074-3624
Weiss, Katja https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1247-6754
Forte, Pedro https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-6780
Thuany, Mabliny https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6858-1871
Vancini, Rodrigo Luiz https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1981-1092
de Lira, Claudio Andre Barbosa https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5749-6877
Nikolaidis, Pantelis T. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8030-7122
Ouerghi, Nejmeddine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8840-1735
Rosemann, Thomas https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6436-6306
Article History
Received: 18 January 2024
Accepted: 3 October 2024
First Online: 20 November 2024
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Kanton St. Gallen, Switzerland, with a waiver of the requirement for informed consent of the participants as the study involved the analysis of publicly available data (EKSG 01/06/2010). The study was conducted in accordance with recognized ethical standards according to the Declaration of Helsinki adopted in 1964 and revised in 2013.