Statistical Analysis
Data distribution was analysed by parametric and non-parametric tools
using mean (standard deviation) or median (range), and student t-tests
or Mann-Whitney tests respectively. Relations between nominal data was
assessed by chi squared analysis. Pearson correlation was used for
parametric correlation analysis. Significance was deemed a p value
<0.05. Analysis was completed using Microsoft Office Excel
Version 16 (2018) and GraphPad Prism software Version 8 (2020).