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Article History

Accepted: 3 December 2024

First Online: 16 January 2025

Declarations

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: This study was funded by Cipla Ltd, India. Medical writing and journal open access charges were paid for by Cipla Ltd, India.

: Rahul Iyer, Amarnath Sugumaran, Senthilnathan Mohanasundaram, and Jaideep Gogtay are full-time employees of Cipla Ltd. Mumbai. Rakesh Sahay, Anil Bhansali, and S.K. Sharma have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.

: The study protocol approval was obtained from the Institutional Ethics Committee (Gurushree Hi-Tech Multispeciality Hospital, Bengaluru; Date: 9 December, 2021; EC approval no. 12/021/007IEC) prior to the commencement of the study. The study was registered under the Clinical Trials Registry India (CTRI/2022/01/039112).

: Written informed consent was obtained from each participant before their enrollment.

: Not applicable.

: The data supporting the results reported in this article are available upon reasonable request. Please contact the corresponding author for further information.

: Not applicable.

: SR, BA, and SS conceived and designed the study; IR, SA, MS, and GJ analyzed and contributed to the data interpretation; IR and SR wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final version.