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
Elwakil, Walaa http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8480-5698
Hassan, Waleed http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3238-6804
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
Mahran, Safaa http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6446-9033
Article History
Received: 28 August 2023
Accepted: 16 November 2023
First Online: 7 December 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 the participants was obtained. 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 editorial board of the journal.Maha El Gaafary, Naglaa Gadallah, Walaa Elwakil, Waleed Hassan, Nihal Fathi, Samar abd Alhamed Tabra, Radwa H Shalaby, and Safaa A Mahran declare that they have no competing interests.