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Article History

Received: 15 June 2026

Accepted: 29 July 2026

First Online: 5 August 2026

Declarations

Ethics approval and consent to participate: All methods in the present study were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations of the Iran National Committee for Ethics in Biomedical Research and also the present study was ethically approved by the ethical committee of the Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, under the ethical code of IR.IAU.URMIA.REC.1403.012. Data including test results and age were obtained from the medical laboratory without their names and reported as frequency and percentage.

Consent for publication: Not applicable.

AI-use disclosure: The authors used Claude (Anthropic, Claude Sonnet 5) as a language-editing assistant during manuscript revision, particularly for improving text structure, clarity, readability, and grammatical accuracy. The authors reviewed and edited all AI-assisted output and take full responsibility for the content of the published article.

Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.