Annan, Esther
Nguyen, Uyen-Sa D. T.
Treviño, Jesús
Wan Yaacob, Wan Fairos
Mangla, Sherry
Pathak, Ashok Kumar
Nandy, Rajesh
Haque, Ubydul
Article History
Received: 12 October 2022
Accepted: 2 February 2023
First Online: 10 March 2023
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the “North Texas Regional Institutional Review Board” as an exempt category (reference # 2021-035) and all methods were performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki guidelines for reporting observational studies. The need for informed consent was waived by the North Texas Regional IRB because the data analyzed was aggregated, de-identified and delinked, and therefore, obtaining informed consent was not applicable.
: Not applicable since we received and analyzed the deidentified and delinked aggregated retrospective data at the municipality level. This data was aggregated and compiled by the Ministry of Health, Mexico through nationally disease surveillance reporting system.
: The authors declare no conflict of interest.