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Article History

Received: 2 May 2022

Revised: 23 August 2022

Accepted: 19 September 2022

First Online: 5 October 2022

Declarations

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: All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations and there was no need for approval from an institutional review board (Ethics Committee of the University of Split School of Medicine), as this study is cross-sectional and historical cohort database study. We neither collected patient data nor performed experimental procedures.

: Furthermore, all data used in this study are publicly available in the ClinicalTrials.gov registry and therefore no permission was required to access the data.

: This study neither studied nor analysed the raw data of other studies. We analysed their data which were publicly registered in ClinicalTrials.gov and published in publicly available scientific journals. So no permission was needed here either.

: The patient data from the registered studies in the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, which we analysed, were summarised and thus anonymised by their authors, so no anonymisation was required in this study.

: Not applicable.