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Authors
Goodarzi, Elham
Khazaei, Zaher
Karamoozian, Ali
AsadiLari, Farzaneh
Naghibzadeh-Tahami, Ahmad
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Kerman University of Medical Sciences (99000721)
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Article History
Received: 10 July 2025
Accepted: 6 October 2025
First Online: 14 November 2025
Declarations
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: The study was conducted under the auspices of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, with ethical approval (IR.KMU.REC.1399.518). Consent to participate is not applicable to this study because it is based on publicly available, anonymized data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) database, which does not involve direct human subject participation.
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
