Balamurugan, Santhalingam
Pophale, Himanshu
Samariya, Utsav
Apte, Komalkirti
Singh, Sheetu
Dhar, Raja
Rajan, Sujeet
Swarnakar, Rajesh
Talwar, Deepak
Lopez, Meena
Naik, Vaishali
Sawant, Sandesh
Chhowala, Sushmeeta
Vaidya, Abhijit
Gogtay, Jaideep
Funding for this research was provided by:
Cipla
Article History
Accepted: 28 September 2025
First Online: 28 October 2025
Declarations
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: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Royal Pune Independent Ethics Committee (Supplementary information I, see ESM).
: Informed consent was obtained from all participants enrolled in the study according to the study protocol.
: Not applicable.
: Authors SB, HP, US, KA, SS, RD, SR, RS, DT, ML, VN, SS, SC, AV, and JG have contributed equally to the conception and design of the study, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting the article, revising it critically for important intellectual content, and to the final approval of the version to be submitted. All authors have read and approved the final submitted manuscript and agree to be accountable for the work.
: Not applicable.
: The data used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
: Meena Lopez, Vaishali Naik, Sandesh Sawant, Sushmeeta Chhowala, Abhijit Vaidya, and Jaideep Gogtay are employees of Cipla Ltd., Mumbai, India. Other authors do not have any conflict of interest regarding the manuscript.