Athanasios Tselebis, Eftychia Koukkou, Charalampos Milionis, Lina Zabuliene, Argyro Pachi, Ioannis Ilias
Athanasios Tselebis, Argyro Pachi, Department of Psychiatry, “Sotiria” General Chest Diseases Hospital, Athens GR-11527, Greece
Eftychia Koukkou, Charalampos Milionis, Ioannis Ilias, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Elena Venizelou General Hospital, Athens GR-11521, Greece
Lina Zabuliene, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius LT-03101, Lithuania
Author contributions: Tselebis A and Ilias I designed this research work; Tselebis A, Koukkou E, Milionis C, Zabuliene L, Pachi A and Ilias I performed the research; Tselebis A and Ilias I analyzed the data; Tselebis A, Koukkou E, Milionis C, Zabuliene L, Pachi A and Ilias I wrote the paper; All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
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https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Ioannis Ilias, MD, PhD, Consultant Physician-Scientist, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Elena Venizelou General Hospital, 2 Elena Venizelou Square, Athens GR-11521, Greece. iiliasmd@yahoo.com
Received: November 14, 2023
Peer-review started: November 14, 2023
First decision: November 30, 2023
Revised: December 6, 2023
Accepted: February 2, 2024
Article in press: February 2, 2024
Published online: March 20, 2024