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Valiei, Fatemeh
Kheirouri, Sorayya
Taheraghdam, Ali-Akbar
Najmi, Safa
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Received: 31 October 2022
Revised: 24 November 2022
Accepted: 29 November 2022
First Online: 17 July 2023
COMPLIANCE WITH ETHICAL STANDARDS
: <i>Conflict of interest.</i> Authors state no conflict of interest.<i>Ethical approval.</i> The protocol of the study was approved by the ethics committee of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran (Ethical no. IR.TBZMED.REC.1397.1024).<i>Informed consent.</i> Informed consent was obtained from all the participants before the study began.
: The patient’s medication may potentially affect circulating levels of measured factors. However, due to the ethical principles, we were not able to discontinue drugs to prevent their confounding effects on investigated factors. Relatively small sample size might have potential to affect data interpretation.
