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
Mahran, Safaa http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6446-9033
Fathi, Nihal http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5940-0007
Abu-Zaid, Mohammed Hassan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8436-8598
Tabra, Samar abd Alhamed http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6414-5602
Shalaby, Radwa H. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4793-0136
Abdelrafea, Belal http://orcid.org/0009-0007-6975-5056
Hassan, Waleed http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3238-6804
Farouk, Osama http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3897-6485
Nafady, Mahmoud http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3462-0016
Farghaly, Ahmed Mohamed http://orcid.org/0009-0006-9863-4563
Ibrahim, Shereef Ibrahim Mohamed http://orcid.org/0009-0008-4073-6553
Ali, Mohamed Abdelfattah http://orcid.org/0009-0004-8826-8227
Elmaradny, Karim Mohamed http://orcid.org/0009-0004-1055-0935
Eskandar, Sally Eskandar Saber http://orcid.org/0009-0001-0610-4535
Elwakil, Walaa http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8480-5698
Article History
Received: 23 July 2023
Accepted: 19 September 2023
First Online: 9 October 2023
Declarations
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: This study is in agreement with the ethical guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki, and it follows the ethical standards of Tanta Faculty of Medicine, with the institution’s ethics board approval number 33997/8/20. Informed written consent from all patients was obtained in accordance with the local ethical committee. Privacy of all patients’ data was granted as there was a code number for every patient file that included all investigations.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that Mohammed H Abu-Zaid is an associate editor in the Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation. Waleed Hassan, Safaa Mahran, Naglaa GadAllah, and Yasser El Miedany are from the editorial board of the journal.The authors declare that they have no competing interests.