Volume 92, February 2026, 104198Author links open overlay panel, Section snippetsCRediT authorship contribution statement

Farshid Rahimi-Bashar: Conceptualization. Amir Vahedian-Azimi: Writing – original draft, Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing.

Ethics approval

Ethical approval was not required for this work, as it did not involve direct human subject participation or the collection of personal data.

Funding

This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

Declaration of Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process

During the preparation of this work, the authors used ChatGPT version 4 to improve the clarity of the manuscript. After using this tool, the authors reviewed and edited the content as needed and take full responsibility for the content of the publication.

Declaration of competing interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the “Clinical Research Development Unit of Baqiyatallah Hospital” for their guidance and advice.

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