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Authors
Abbas, Manzar
Arshad, Hajra
Mahar, Muhammad Umar
Hassan, Javerya
Tahir, Izza
Aziz, Namra
Jafri, Lena
Riaz, Mehmood
Almas, Aysha
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Article History
Received: 19 November 2025
Accepted: 29 June 2026
First Online: 2 July 2026
Declarations
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: Ethical clearance (2021-7023-20010) was received from the Aga Khan University Ethics Review Committee (Institutional Review Board) before conducting the study. It was a retrospective review of the existing dataset, so no patient interaction happened during the course of the study. That is why consent to participation is not applicable.
: Similar to consent to participation, consent to publication was also not applicable as there was no interaction between authors and the patients.
: This study has not been published before and is not under consideration from any other journal. A preprint of this paper is available at: . The dataset and its associated materials are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
