Dogra, Vinay
Mittal, Bhavika
Senthil Kumaran, S.
Nehra, Ashima
Sagar, Rajesh
Gupta, Anu
Kalaivani, Mani
Gupta, Yashdeep http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4345-717X
Tandon, Nikhil
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Science and Technology (SR/CSRI/162/2016)
Article History
Received: 3 November 2021
Accepted: 26 January 2022
First Online: 19 February 2022
Funding
: This project was funded by Department of Science and Technology with grant No. SR/CSRI/162/2016 to Yashdeep Gupta as the Principal Investigator. No sponsorship of funding was received for the publication of this article.
: All named authors meet the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) criteria for authorship for this article, take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, and have given their approval for this version to be published.
: YG and AG conceptualised this research. The first draft was written by VD, AG and YG. VD, BK, SSK, AN and YG were involved in execution of this work. MK helped with statistical part. NT provided the overall supervision and helped in providing inputs in planning and patient recruitment. RS provided inputs in the planning stage. All authors helped in editing and provided the final approval of this manuscript for publication. YG is the guarantor of this work and has full access to the data.
: Vinay Dogra, Bhavika Mittal, S. Senthil Kumaran, Ashima Nehra, Rajesh Sagar, Anu Gupta, Mani Kalaivani, Yashdeep Gupta, and Nikhil Tandon have nothing to disclose.
: The study was approved by the institutional ethics committee (Ref No. IEC-585/05.01.2017, RP-52/2017, dated 29<sup>th</sup> March, 2017) and informed consent was obtained from all participants. The study was conducted in accordance with the International Conference on Harmonisation Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice and the Declaration of Helsinki.
: The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.