Fooladfar, Zahra
Rafati Zomorodi, Abolfazl
Parvizi Mashhadi, Mohammad Hassan
Meftah, Elahe
Abdipour Mehrian, Seyed Reza
Motamedifar, Mohammad https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4993-4034
Amanati, Ali https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9173-2853
Funding for this research was provided by:
Vice-Chancellor for Research at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (IR.SUMS.REC.01 27785)
Article History
Received: 22 June 2025
Accepted: 17 February 2026
First Online: 20 February 2026
Declarations
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: The Ethics Committee of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences gave their approval for this study with the code number IR.SUMS.REC.1402.466. The written informed consent was signed by each participant for the anonymous use of their data. Parents or legal guardians provided written informed permission for individuals under 16 years. We adhered to all of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki’s ethical guidelines for doing research on human subjects in medicine.
: The authors declare no competing interests.