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Abhyankar, Purva https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0779-6588
Lepe, Alexander
van der Schans, Jurjen
van den Brand, Floor A.
Siddiqui, Faraz
Saeed, Saima
Akhter, Javeria
Khan, Amina
Kamran Baba, Mian Ali
Tsiligianni, Ioanna
Bouloukaki, Izolde
Christodoulakis, Antonios
Katagira, Winceslaus
Kirenga, Bruce
Isar, Cristina
Antohe, Adriana
Lupu, Anca
Neculau, Andrea
Sooronbaev, Talant
Mirzalieva, Gulzada
Taalaibekova, Aijan
van der Kleij, Rianne
Arvind, D. K.
Williams, Siân
Carvalho, Luís
Pinnock, Hilary
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council (101095461)
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Article History
Received: 6 November 2025
Accepted: 10 July 2026
First Online: 20 July 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: The research was conducted according to the ethical standards as outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. Ethical approvals for all project activities were granted from the research ethics committees in all included countries. Kyrgyzstan: Ethical committee of the National Center of Cardiology and Internal Medicine named after academician М. Miпakhimov (NCCIM) (October 2023). Pakistan: National Institutes of Health, Health Research Institute, National Bioethics Committee For Research (NBC-R) (December 2023, January 2025). Greece: Ethics and Research Ethics Committee of University of Crete (February 2023). Romania: The Ethics Committee of Transilvania University of Brasov (CEU) (May 2024)Uganda: The Mulago Hospital Research and Ethics Committee (March 2024, July 2025).
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
