Contreras, Luis Alfredo Navas https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7447-9593
Karantzoulis, Vasilis
Trenado, Carlos https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6041-4614
Velazquez, Karen https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4596-0260
Suárez-Gutiérrez, Marcos A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3516-2005
Mantilla-Mayans, Philip
Sanchez-Porras, Renan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9084-8114
Santos, Edgar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8976-5549
Vazifehdan, Farzam https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1835-896X
Article History
Received: 13 December 2024
Accepted: 4 September 2025
First Online: 13 October 2025
Declarations
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: This study was conducted in accordance with the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. Retrospectively registered with the institutional ethics committee (approval no. F-2023-073). Informed consent was obtained from all participants.
: The manuscript does not contain any individual person’s data in any form.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests in connection with the submitted article and that no external funding was received for any aspect of this work.