Gião, Tiago
Tábuas-Pereira, Miguel
Baldeiras, Inês
Saavedra, Joana
Dias, Alexandre
Saraiva, Maria João
Almeida, Maria Rosário
Santana, Isabel
Cardoso, Isabel
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (2020.07444.BD)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PTDC/MED-PAT/0959/2021)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PTDC/MED-PAT/0959/2021)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (2023.03111.BD)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (UI/BD/153607/2022)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PTDC/MED-PAT/0959/2021)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PTDC/MED-PAT/0959/2021)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PTDC/MED-PAT/0959/2021)
Article History
Received: 6 May 2025
Accepted: 23 February 2026
First Online: 12 March 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The present research complied with the ethical guidelines for human experimentation stated in the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Ethics Board of Coimbra University Hospital (OBS.SF.088.2022) and Committee for Ethical and Responsible Conduct of Research of i3S (N 16/CECRI/2023). All subjects or responsible caregivers, whichever appropriate, gave their informed consent.
: Uploaded to a preprint server (https://www.biorxiv.org/): https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.24.634710v1