Santos, Inês Caetano
De la Torre Canales, Giancarlo
Lopes, David G.
Mendes, José João
Polido, Mário
Manso, Ana Cristina
Canhão, Helena
Article History
Received: 22 May 2024
Accepted: 10 December 2024
First Online: 18 December 2024
Declarations
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: This study was conducted in accordance with the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki, as revised in Fortaleza in 2013. The EpiDoC study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the NOVA Medical School and the Portuguese Data Protection Authority (Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados). Details of the ethical aspects of the EpiDoC study have been described in a previous report []. The secondary analysis of the present study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the NOVA Medical School (n.79/2020/CEFCM). All participants provided written informed consent for all phases of the study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.