El Miedany, Yasser http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4543-692X
El Gaafary, Maha http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3948-3826
Gadallah, Naglaa http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3523-6972
Sulimani, Riad http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7319-8877
AlAli, Nadia S.
Alzoubi, Ziad
Azim, Atef Abdel http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1103-1286
Abdulateef, Nizar http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0659-8130
Adib, Gemma
Elwy, Mohamed http://orcid.org/0009-0003-9315-573X
Al Izzi, Mustafa Khalid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8212-7248
El Maghraoui, Abdellah http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0668-5680
Mahran, Safaa http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6446-9033
Masri, Basel K. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4592-1247
Al Emadi, Samar http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7942-4831
Abu-Zaid, Mohammed Hassan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8436-8598
Saba, Elias
Hassan, Waleed http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3238-6804
El Rakaawi, Manal http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8235-4595
Otom, Ali
Elwakil, Walaa http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8480-5698
Article History
Received: 21 July 2023
Accepted: 11 September 2023
First Online: 3 October 2023
Declarations
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: This study was performed in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration. The Clinical, Evidence-based, Guidelines (CEG) initiative protocol was approved by the local ethical committee: ethical approval code: 34842/8/21, ethical board Tanta University.
: All authors have approved the manuscript for submission.Duplicate publication: This is to confirm that the content of the manuscript has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
: The authors declare that Mohammed H Abu-Zaid is the associate editor of the <i>Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation</i>. Waleed Hassan, Safaa Mahran, Naglaa GadAllah, and Yasser El Miedany are from the editorial board of the journal, and there is no financial support and sponsorship.