Mirjalili, Seyed Reza http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8568-201X
Soltani, Sepideh http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1591-2569
Meybodi, Zahra Heidari http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9639-4715
Marques-Vidal, Pedro
Firouzabadi, Danial Dehghani http://orcid.org/0009-0004-9438-7249
Eshraghi, Reza http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3435-3851
Restrepo, David http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3789-1957
Ghoshouni, Hamed
Sarebanhassanabadi, Mohammadtaghi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8867-4717
Article History
Received: 1 March 2024
Accepted: 16 June 2024
First Online: 21 June 2024
Declarations
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: The current investigation received approval from the ethics committee of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences (ethics code: IR.SSU.REC.1402.106) and was carried out in accordance with the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki for medical research Study participants provided informed consent both during the initial phase and the follow-up phase. This study is based on the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) declaration.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.