Pais, Ricardo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1931-2659
Ruano, Luís
Moreira, Carla
Carvalho, Ofélia P.
Barros, Henrique
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT UID/DTP/04750/2013)
Fundo Europeu Desenvolvimento Regional e Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016867)
Article History
Received: 8 July 2020
Accepted: 31 October 2020
First Online: 16 November 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in agreement with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The ethics committee of Hospital de São João approved the study. All individual participants received an explanation on the purpose and design of the study and gave their written informed consent in the evaluation. In participants with cognitive impairment, written consent was also sought from a valid surrogate.
: Not Applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing of interest and certify responsibility for the manuscript.