Chandrasekaran, Baskaran https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1439-9158
Rao, Chythra R. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4016-2683
Thirunavukkarasu, Eswaran
Jadhav, Radhika https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7917-5193
Srivastav, Prateek https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8836-6426
Bairapareddy, Kalyana Chakravarthy https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5159-5951
Funding for this research was provided by:
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
Article History
Received: 29 November 2025
Accepted: 20 February 2026
First Online: 31 March 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: As systematic review, no formal ethical approval was needed. The protocol for the present systematic review was registered prospectively in PROSPERO systematic review registry (CRD42025635312). The present systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted and reported according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) 2020 updated guidelines for reporting systematic reviews.
: Not applicable.