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Godakanda Arachchige, Rebekah J. Moles, Sarath Lekamwasam, Margaret Jordan, Benjamin J. Basger, Shukry Zawahir and Timothy F. Chen have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.","order":2,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Conflicts of interests\/competing interests"}},{"value":"This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Ethical Review Committee, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka (2023\/P\/118 [30\/11\/2023]).","order":3,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Ethics approval"}},{"value":"Written informed consent was obtained from all participants for participation.","order":4,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Consent to participate"}},{"value":"Written informed consent was obtained from all participants for the publication of anonymised data.","order":5,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Consent for publication"}},{"value":"The de-identified data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. Interested researchers should submit a formal request to the corresponding author, outlining the intended use and providing evidence of ethical clearance. Each request will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Access to the data will require the signing of a data use agreement.","order":6,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Availability of data and material"}},{"value":"Not applicable.","order":7,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Code availability"}},{"value":"Conceptualisation: MPGA, RJM, TFC. Funding acquisition: MPGA, SZ, TFC. Methodology: MPGA, RJM, TFC. Data collection: MPGA, RJM, SL, TFC. Project administration: MPGA, SL, TFC. Supervision: RJM, TFC. Formal analysis: MPGA, TFC. Validation: RJM, SL, MJ, BJB, TFC. Visualisation: MJ, BJB, TFC. Writing (original draft): MPGA. Writing (review and editing): MPGA, RJM, SL, MJ, BJB, SZ, TFC.","order":8,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Authors\u2019 contributions"}},{"value":"While preparing this article, we used Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT to improve readability and language. After using these tools, we carefully reviewed and edited the content as needed. Microsoft Copilot was also used to generate Fig.\n                      \n                      . We did not use any AI tools for generating scientific insights, analysing or interpreting data, or drawing scientific conclusions. We take full responsibility for the content of this publication.","order":9,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Disclosure of AI"}}]}}