Funding for this research was provided by:
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
Article History
Received: 22 February 2018
Accepted: 2 May 2019
First Online: 16 May 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was conducted with ethical approval from the Ethical Committee of King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC), and the permission required to access the raw data was provided by KAIMRC. The need for participants consent was waived by the IRB, as the research did not involve any procedures or represent any harm to participants. Further, to avoid any potential breach of confidentiality, necessary participant identifiers were removed from data files and were stored in a physically separated and secured location.
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