Haq, Mir Inamul
Datta, Vikram
Bandyopadhyay, Tapas
Nangia, Sushma
Anand, Pratima
Murukesan, Vishnu Mohan
Article History
Received: 31 August 2025
Revised: 30 October 2025
Accepted: 8 November 2025
First Online: 25 November 2025
Declarations
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: The trial has been prospectively registered (before the study started) in the CTRI registry, India Number (CTRI/2023/12/060562). The study has been approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Hospitals, New Delhi (LHMC/IEC/2023/26). The study was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki (2013) and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) National Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical and Health Research Involving Human Participants (2017) and the Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019 (GSR 227(E)) of India.
: The authors declare no competing interests.