Iyer, Shivani Madhuchandra
Singh, Sanjeet
Srivastav, Alok
Article History
Received: 2 August 2024
Accepted: 16 February 2025
First Online: 17 March 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare that the above manuscript complies with ethical standards for research in human participants and has no potential sources of conflict of interest associated with its publication. All participants were recruited only from the Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, UP, India, after obtaining ethical clearance from the Institutional Review Board and taking informed written consent. Ethical clearance was obtained from the Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC) of the Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. All procedures were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: The authors also certify that informed written consent was obtained from all prospective participating patients in this study.
: None.
: Self-reported data, cultural biases.
: Sufficient numbers of cases in all study groups.