Acknowledgments
The authors thank Vincent Fitzpatrick for the English rereading.
Author contributions: Conception and design: DM; Analysis and interpretation: DM, CC, JB; Drafting the manuscript for important intellectual content: All the authors. All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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