2.5. Analytic Plan
All analyses were conducted in SPSS version 28.0 (IBM Statistics, Armonk, NY, USA). One-way ANOVA and chi-squared tests were used to ensure that randomization resulted in no significant between-group differences in demographic continuous and categorical variables. SBP, DBP, and HR data were screened for outliers, and outliers over three standard deviations above or below the mean were winsorized (