Reporting guidelines and ethical considerations

Our study design and reporting adhered to the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guidelines for cohort studies.17 Due to the retrospective nature of the study, ethical approval was waived by our institution.
Statistical techniques
Continuous variables with normal distribution were summarised using the means and standard deviations (SD), otherwise we used medians and interquartile ranges (IQR). Independent samples t-test was used to evaluate association between groups, and a p -value ≤ 0.05 was considered statistically significant. All analysis was performed using SPSS version 26.0 (IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY).

Results