Tápias, Felipe Saia http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0914-4425
Otani, Victor Henrique Oyamada
Vasques, Daniel Augusto Corrêa
Otani, Thais Zelia Santos
Uchida, Ricardo Riyoiti
Funding for this research was provided by:
Coordenação de aperfeiçoamento de pessoal de nível superior CAPES
Article History
Received: 30 November 2020
Accepted: 21 April 2021
First Online: 6 May 2021
Declarations
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: Although our study involves data from human participants, all data were retrieved from the open-access database Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). Therefore, the Institutional Review Board of the Santa Casa de São Paulo School of Medicine (Brazil) waived the need for ethics approval.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.