Ethics approval and consent to participate
The study received ethics approval from the Ethics Committee of Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences under the ethics code: IR.HUMS.REC.1399.562 and complies with the statements of the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consent was obtained from all the patients. The trial has also been registered prospectively at the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials (IRCT), IRCT20201106049289N1, available at 