Varma, Praveen Kerala http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3978-2874
Vijayakumar, Maniyal http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5193-3423
Bhuvaneshwar, Gopichettipalayam Subbaratnam
Kumar, Adarsh Syla
Krishna, Neethu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1834-8086
Funding for this research was provided by:
Indian Council of Medical Research (5/4/1-3/2019-NCD-II)
Article History
Received: 21 June 2022
Revised: 25 October 2022
Accepted: 28 October 2022
First Online: 3 December 2022
Declarations
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: The institutional ethics committee approved the study on 20 May 2019 with IEC no-IEC-AIMS-2019-CVTS-085.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual consenting participants included in the study.
: Dr. G. S. Bhuvaneshwar reports receiving consultation fees from TTK Healthcare Limited on guidance provided for the company’s post-market clinical studies. The remaining authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
: All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.