“…In this sense, the EAPD adopted these diagnostic criteria [1,9,10]. Ever since, multiple studies have studied the etiology of HSPM, pointing to multifactorial, although it is still unclear [2,4,6,8,9,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. In regard to prevalence, HPSM is significantly reported as low, ranging from 2% to 21.8% [1,5,8,[10][11][12][14][15][16]18,19], though a recent study estimated to be around 4.9% to 9.0% of the worldwide population [6].…”