Hosseini, Ameinh
Eghtedari, Amir Reza
Mirzaei, Alireza
Babaheidarian, Pegah
Nekoufar, Samira
Khademian, Narges
Jamshidi, Khodamorad
Tavakoli-Yaraki, Masoumeh http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4449-9248
Funding for this research was provided by:
Iran University of Medical Sciences (1400-1-75-20336)
Article History
Received: 29 April 2023
Accepted: 19 July 2023
First Online: 25 July 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was approved by the ethics committee of the Vice president of Research of Iran University of Medical Sciences with the ethics committee code: IR.IUMS.REC.1400.483 and the process of sample collection was performed based on the guidelines and regulations of the declaration of Helsinki [CitationRef removed]. Accordingly, the practical, and purposes of the project were described for the patients and following their agreement to participate, the signed written informed consent was taken from all participants including those whose age was less than 18 years that their legal guardian submitted the consent. The signed informed consent form for each patient is available and can be provided upon request.
: Not applicable.