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Article History

Received: 17 September 2019

Accepted: 3 December 2019

First Online: 1 January 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study complied with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the institutional review board of our institute (IRB No.: 2017AN0178). Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests regarding this article.