Meenu, S.
Ramalingam, Sudha
Sairam, Thiagarajan
Appinabhavi, Arati
Panicker, Seetha
Oommen, Seema
Sankaran, Ramalingam http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2363
Funding for this research was provided by:
Indian Council of Medical Research (5/7/377/2009-RHN)
Article History
Received: 20 January 2020
Accepted: 28 July 2020
First Online: 25 August 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants 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. The study was approved by the Institutional Human Ethics Committee, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore (IHEC No: 10/214).
: Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.