From the ∗Department of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit
†Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Official approvals for the study were obtained from the Ethical Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria, and the director of the Main University Hospital in Alexandria.
Written informed consent was obtained from all participants in this study, and confidentiality of data was assured.
All authors contributed equally to the following: (1) the conception and design of the study; (2) supervision, funding, and data collection; (3) analysis and interpretation of data; (4) literature review, drafting the article; (5) writing and revising it critically for important intellectual content; and (6) final approval of the version to be submitted.
Correspondence: Abeer Ali Abdelati, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Sidi Gaber Street, Alexandria, Egypt. E-mail: [email protected], ORCID: 0000-0002-1460-0619.
