Valente, Madalena
Branco, Diogo
Bermúdez i Badia, Sergi
Fernandes, Jean-Claude
Figueiredo, Patrícia
Vourvopoulos, Athanasios
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (https://doi.org/10.54499/2022.02283.PTDC)
Article History
Received: 11 December 2025
Accepted: 3 February 2026
First Online: 9 February 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. This human study was approved by Scientific and Ethic Committees of the Central Hospital of Funchal, Portugal - approval: 21/2019. The study’s clinical trial registration number is NCT04376138 registered with Participant registration took place from Aug-2019 to Dec-2023. All adult participants provided written informed consent to participate in this study.
: All participants provided written informed consent for the publication of anonymized data included in this manuscript.