Kumari, Ravita
Tiwari, Shikha
Atlani, Mahendra
Anirudhan, Athira
Goel, Sudhir K.
Kumar, Ashok http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7208-2947
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Health Research, India (R. 12013/11/2021-HR/E-office: 8111586, R. 12013/11/2021-HR/E-office: 8111586)
Indian Council of Medical Research (5/4/7-14/19/NCD-II, 5/4/7-14/19/NCD-II)
Article History
Received: 6 December 2022
Accepted: 9 January 2023
First Online: 25 January 2023
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of Institutional Human Ethics Committee-Postgraduate Research (IHEC-PGR), AIIMS Bhopal dated 23.11.2019 (IHEC-LOP/2019/MD0083).
: Informed consent was taken from all the participants (cases and healthy controls). While enrolling participants, a patient information sheet was handed over to all the participants before enrollment in the study.
: Not applicable.