Dwivedi, Shailendra http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2781-1009
Sharma, Praveen
Goel, Apul
Khattri, Sanjay
Misra, Sanjeev
Pant, Kamlesh Kumar
Funding for this research was provided by:
Indian Council of Medical Research (2/2/204/2009-NCD-III)
Article History
Received: 29 December 2022
Accepted: 8 January 2023
First Online: 13 January 2023
Declarations
:
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study has been conducted under recommended ethical norms and guidelines.
: The study is performed on human participants, and the study was approved (Ref. code: XXXVII ECM/B-P12) by the institutional ethical committee of the King George Medical University, India. All personal identifiers (name, employer, contact) were removed from the data set, and analysis was carried out at the institute level.
: During the enrolment of the patients and controls, informed consent was taken from each participant.