Article History
Received: 11 July 2023
Accepted: 11 October 2023
First Online: 28 November 2023
Declarations
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: Priyanka, R. Kadavigere and S. Sukumar declare that they have no competing interests.
: The current study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of the Kasturba Medical College and Kasturba Hospital, Manipal (IEC:610/2018). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants or on human tissue were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1975 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained prior to the participation in the study from the legal guardians of the participants.