About the Authors

Antoine Abou Rached

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

souheilhallit@usek.edu.lb (SH); abourachedantoine@gmail.com (AAR)

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Lebanese University, Hadat, Lebanon

Joyce Saniour

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Lebanese University, Hadat, Lebanon

Antoine Geagea

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Lebanese University, Hadat, Lebanon

Christian Salameh

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Jounieh, Lebanon

Souheil Hallit

Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

souheilhallit@usek.edu.lb (SH); abourachedantoine@gmail.com (AAR)

‡ SH and CY these authors are share are last co-authorship on this work.

Affiliations School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Jounieh, Lebanon, Applied Science Research Center, Applied Science Private University, Amman, Jordan

Charbel Yazbeck

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ SH and CY these authors are share are last co-authorship on this work.

Affiliations School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Jounieh, Lebanon, Department of Gastroenterology, Notre-Dame des Secours Hospital, Byblos, Lebanon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.