Mehmood, Nazish
Khan, Amjad
Abbas, Sameen
Mushtaq, Saima
Fang, Yu
Ans, Muhammad
Fakhar-ud-Din,
Khan, Gul Majid
Article History
Received: 18 September 2023
Accepted: 10 September 2025
First Online: 29 September 2025
Declarations
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: The current study was approved by the Bioethics Committee of Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad (BEC-FBS-QAU2018-100). All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All eligible participants provided written informed consent.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.