Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This was a single-center prospective
observational study approved by the Institutional Research Ethics Board. Signed
informed consent was obtained from all Participants.
Consent for publication: the manuscript doesn’t contain any individual person’s data in
any form.
Availability of data and material: The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during
the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Funding : The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests
Authors’ contributions: LS carried out the conceptualization and the data curation. GBH
participated in the collection of the data and the recruitment of participants. SC helped in
writing and reviewing the draft. IBZ participated in the design and the review of the study.
AI participated in study design and coordination. LS participated in study design and
coordination. EH participated in the design of the study and performed the statistical
analysis. LL conceived of the study, and supervised its coordination.
All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Acknowledgements: Not applicable
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