Vijaykumar, Girish
Anand, Vivek
Patel, Gautham
Muniramaiah, Ravishankar
Kahlon, Shubhkarman
Article History
Received: 2 October 2025
Accepted: 2 January 2026
First Online: 19 February 2026
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest relevant to this work.
: This study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee (EC/NEW/INST/2020/756). All procedures performed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.