Al-Taiar, Abdullah
Ziyab, Ali H.
Hammoud, Majeda S.
Al-Sabah, Reem
Akhtar, Saeed
Funding for this research was provided by:
Kuwait University (MC01/15, MC01/15)
Article History
Received: 11 November 2023
Accepted: 6 March 2025
First Online: 20 March 2025
Declarations
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: This study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the ethics committee at the Ministry of Health, Kuwait (Ref: project 173/2014; date: February 14th, 2017) and the Institutional Review Board at Old Dominion University Ref: 1517949). Written informed consent was taken from each study participant before recruitment.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing or conflict of interest.