Uthayakumar, Amaravathi
Adole, Prashant Shankarrao
Vinod, Kolar Vishwanath
Nathan, Balamurugan
Funding for this research was provided by:
Jawaharlal Institute Of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIP/Res/Intramural/Phs 1/2018-19 dated November 16)
Jawaharlal Institute Of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (2018)
Article History
Received: 28 May 2024
Accepted: 30 January 2025
First Online: 12 February 2025
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the JIPMER Institute scientific and ethics committees (JIP/IEC/2017/0442 dated 03/03/2018). All procedures followed were followed as per the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964, as revised in 2013. Written informed consent was taken from all the study participants or their relatives before recruitment, and after informing them that the study was not part of their treatment.
: All study participants gave consent for publication.
: The authors declare no competing interests.