Kumar, Dinesh
Ghuman, Navdeep Kaur https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3981-6678
Yadav, Dharamveer
Pareek, Puneet
Vishnoi, Jeewan Ram
Shekhar, Shashank
Singh, Pratibha
Funding for this research was provided by:
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur
Article History
Received: 29 November 2024
Accepted: 10 November 2025
First Online: 22 November 2025
Declarations
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: Authors do not have any conflict of interests to declare.
: Institutional Research Committee & Institutional Ethics Committee approval (AIIMS/IEC/2020/3171). This prospective cohort study was undertaken at a tertiary level teaching hospital following a research protocol review and approval by institutional ethical committee (Ethical Committee, AIIMS Jodhpur. Certificate Reference Number AIIMS/IEC/2020/3171). This interdisciplinary study followed ethical principles of human research set out declaration of Helsinki.
: I, Dr. Navdeep Kaur Ghuman as the corresponding author, on behalf of all the authors, declare that This manuscript is not submitted to any other journal for simultaneous consideration. The submitted work is original and is not published elsewhere in any form or language. Results are presented clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation.