Keepanasseril, Anish https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4881-0382
Ravi, Saranya
Dorairajan, Gowri
Zachariah, Bobby
Kundra, Pankaj
Parameswaran, Sreejith
Pillai, Ajith Ananthakrishna
Kar, Sitanshu Sekhar
Maurya, Dilip Kumar
Funding for this research was provided by:
Jawaharlal Institute Of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Learning Resource Allowance)
Indian Council of Medical Research (RBMH/Adhoc/5/2017-18)
Article History
Received: 16 July 2024
Revised: 13 November 2024
Accepted: 22 November 2024
First Online: 10 July 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in this study were done with the ethical standards set by the Institute Scientific Advisory and Ethical Committee (Human Studies) following the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments. The protocol for the primary study was approved by the Institute Ethics Committee (Human Studies) (Approval number: JIP/ IEC/2013/3/173 dated 25th September 2013; renewed on 25.04.2017 and JIP/IEC/2021/269 dated 04.08.2021).