About the Authors

Iryna Tsymbaliuk

Affiliations Department of Therapy, Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, 04112 Kiev, Ukraine, Department of Functional Diagnostic, Kyiv City Teaching Endocrinological Center, 01034 Kiev, Ukraine

Dmytro Unukovych

Affiliations Department of Surgery #4, Bogomolets National Medical University, 01601 Kiev, Ukraine, Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, 17176 Stockholm, Sweden

Nataliia Shvets

Affiliations Department of Therapy, Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, 04112 Kiev, Ukraine, Department of Functional Diagnostic, Kyiv City Teaching Endocrinological Center, 01034 Kiev, Ukraine

Andrii Dinets

andrii.dinets@ki.se

Affiliations Department of Surgery #4, Bogomolets National Medical University, 01601 Kiev, Ukraine, Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, 17176 Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IT DU NS AD. Performed the experiments: IT AD. Analyzed the data: IT DU NS AD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IT NS AD. Wrote the paper: IT DU NS AD. Obtained permission to use EQ-5D-5L instrument: AD.