Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Health Research, New Delhi, India (Ref. No. R.12013/06/2019-HR)
Article History
Received: 2 April 2025
Accepted: 13 May 2025
First Online: 29 May 2025
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by Institutional Ethics Committee (No.Dean/2022/EC/3427).
: Informed consent was obtained from all the patients included in the study.
: All authors have read the manuscript and provided their consent for publication.
: The authors declare no competing interests.