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The Editor and Publisher of Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management wish to retract the published article. Following publication of the Expression of Concern, this article has been retracted due to acknowledgement of allegations of scientific misconduct regarding data integrity, inappropriate authorship, duplicate reporting, ethical oversight, and data fabrication. In addition, it has been recognised that numerous other publications from this research group have also been retracted.
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