Ramani, Nitin
Kawli, Kashmira
Karad, Abhijeet
Kale, Aditya
Kahalekar, Vinit
Sundaram, Sridhar
Bhatia, Shobna
Shah, Ravikumar
Bandgar, Tushar
Deshmukh, Hemant
Patwardhan, Sujata
Shukla, Akash https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7718-9452
Funding for this research was provided by:
Multidisciplinary Research Unit (MRU), Seth GSMC & KEM Hospital, Department of Health research, Govt. of India. (GSMC/MRU/121/2016)
Article History
Received: 30 August 2021
Accepted: 16 February 2022
First Online: 17 March 2022
Declarations
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: Nitin Ramani, Kashmira Kawli, Abhijeet Karad, Aditya Kale, Vinit Kahalekar, Sridhar Sundaram, Shobna Bhatia, Ravikumar Shah, Tushar Bandgar, Hemant Deshmukh, Sujata Patwardhan, and Akash Shukla declare that we have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008 (5). Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.
: This article does not contain any studies with animal subjects.
: Ethics committee approval was obtained. Letter reference no-EC/OA-55/2016.
: The work has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review or thesis). The work is not under consideration elsewhere. Copyright has not been breached in seeking its publication. The publication has been approved by all co-authors and responsible authorities at the institute or organization where the work has been carried out.
: Not applicable.