Kankaria, Sanket
Gali, Kasi Viswanath
Chawla, Arun https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8947-1017
Bhaskara, Sunil Pillai
Hegde, Padmaraj
Somani, Bhaskar
de la Rosette, Jean
Laguna, Pilar
Funding for this research was provided by:
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
Article History
Received: 12 December 2023
Accepted: 27 March 2024
First Online: 24 April 2024
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: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose. The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article. All authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest or non-financial interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript. The authors have no financial or proprietary interests in any material discussed in this article.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional ethics committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Kasturba Medical College and Kasturba Hospital Institutional Ethics Committee (DHR Registration No. EC/NEW/INST/2019/374) under the number IEC: 450/2020.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.