Shridhar, Krithiga
Krishnatreya, Manigreeva
Kumar, Ranjit
Kondal, Dimple
Bhattacharyya, Mouchumee
Kalita, Banti
Snehil, Prakriti
Singh, Amulya K.
Kataki, Amal Chandra
Ghosh, Ashok
D.Prabhakaran,
Prabhakaran, Poornima
Dhillon, Preet K.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Public Health Foundation of India’s Centre for Environmental Health core funds
Article History
Received: 21 October 2022
Accepted: 27 August 2023
First Online: 21 September 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest. We declare the commercial affiliation of one of our authors (Genentech Roche, CA, USA). The funder provided support in the form of salary for the author (PKD) but did not have any additional role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript.
: Ethics committee approval was obtained from all participating institutions, which included the coordinating centre Public Health Foundation of India (TRC IEC-389/18), as well as from study hospitals (BBCI-TMC/Misc-119/MEC/231/2019; 09/RMRI/EC/2019; SSN/IEC/JAN/2019/29), and the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the committee. All study participants provided informed consent. Information sheets in local language were given to the participants, and their signatures were obtained in the consent forms. Strict COVID control protocol as approved by the ethical committee was followed during COVID-Pandemic.