All of the authors of the article listed in the reference below agree to the retraction of this article due to data inconsistencies. A reader alerted the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Michael Relf, on April 19, 2021, that the data were incorrect because of inconsistencies in the reporting of the results in Tables 2 and 3. On July 2, 2021, the corresponding author notified the Editor-in-Chief that they were unable to locate all of the original data and thus could not fully correct the inconsistencies. The reader's email and the authors' response were shared with two people on the editorial leadership team and two statisticians on the editorial board. The journal's review of the article as well as the response information provided by the corresponding author resulted in the decision that retraction of the full article was warranted; the authors were informed on August 24, 2021, of this decision. There are no concerns of research misconduct.

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