Kumar, Divas
Awasthi, Shally http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1254-9802
Mahdi, Abbas Ali
Singh, Shweta
Pandey, Anuj Kumar
Agarwal, Girdhar G.
Anish, Thekkumkara Surendran
A.R., Somashekar
Kar, Sonali
Nair, Suma
Mathew, Joseph L.
Bhat, Mushtaq A.
Mahanta, B. N.
Singh, Kuldeep
Singh, C. M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Hindustan Unilever Limited (212332)
Article History
Received: 10 May 2023
Accepted: 1 September 2023
First Online: 3 November 2023
Declarations
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: This study was conducted according to the guidelines laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki and all procedures involving human subjects/patients were approved by the Institutional Ethics Committees for Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences [approval reference number (ARN): IEC/SKIMS Protocol # RP 175/2018], PGIMER, Chandigarh (ARN: PGI/IEC/2019/000152), All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur (ARN: AIIMS/IEC/2017/765), King George's Medical University (ARN: 9334/Ethics/R.Cell-16), All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna (ARN: IEC/AIIMS/PAT/153/2017), Assam Medical College (ARN: AMC/EC/1430), Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar (ARN: KIMS/KIIT/IEC/112/2016), Kasturba Medical College (ARN: IEC:388/2019), MS Ramaiah Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore (ARN: MSRMC/EC/AP-02/02-2019) and Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram (ARN: HEC.No.04/34/2019/MCT). Written informed consent was obtained from parents of all study participants. The study was prospectively registered with Clinical Trial Registry of India. Registration number is: CTRI/2019/02/017783 [Clinical Trials Registry - India (CTRI)].
: None.