Sultan Abdul Kader, Mohamed Iliyas https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8669-6923
Ramanna, Vijayaprakas Rao
Ahmad, Abd Razak
Kumarasuriar, Gayathri
Guan, Lum Sai
Yunus, Mohd Razif Mohamad
Article History
Received: 26 June 2024
Accepted: 13 December 2024
First Online: 23 December 2024
Declarations
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: The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the Ministry of Health Malaysia's and the National University of Malaysia's guidelines on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. Ethics approval for the study was obtained from the Medical Research and Ethics Committee, Ministry of Health Malaysia (NMRR ID-22-00113-ISR), and the National University of Malaysia (UKM JEP-2022- 084). Written consent was obtained from all patients.
: Written consent from each patient was obtained before the initiation of the study.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.