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Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Box-plots of the studied markers in 20 small and 20 large VSs. The box represents the values from the first to the third quartile. The whiskers from the box extend to 1.5 times the interquartile range. p-values from non-parametric Wilcoxon signed-rank test are presented.