Modified CONSORT flow diagram with numbers of patients (n
We used Bland-Altmann plots (presenting mean slopes, mean difference in slopes and 95% limits of agreement) to test our hypothesis, the agreement between the increase of pResults are presented as numbers (%) or mean ± SD. A p-value <0.05 was considered statistically significant. Analyses were performed using Stata version 16.1 (StataCorp LT, Texas, USA) or R version 4.0.3. (R Core Team (2020), R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria).