Gaffari, Jasem
Akbarzadeh, Kamran
Baniardalani, Mozhgan
Hosseini, Reza
Masoumi, Safdar
Amiri, Zahra Sadat
Shabani Kordshouli, Razieh
Rafinejad, Javad
Dahmardehei, Mostafa
Funding for this research was provided by:
Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services (97012737483)
Article History
Received: 6 April 2023
Accepted: 4 September 2023
First Online: 19 September 2023
Declarations
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: The patients who participated in this study were informed about the methodology and study purposes and enrolled as volunteers, with a signed consent letter. All the procedures were in accordance to the Helsinki Declaration regarding human research and were reviewed and approved by the Medical Ethics Board of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (with code no. IR.TUMS.VCR.REC.1396.4691). This study has also been registered in Iranian registry of clinical trials and received a clinical trial code (IRCT ID: IRCT20170531034272N2).
: A consent letter was taken from the participants for the publication of relevant data presented in this paper.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.