K, Nagendra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7272-1128
Bakkannavar, Shankar M. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6599-7014
Bhat, Vinutha R. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9457-9492
Sirur, Freston Marc https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8095-2516
Funding for this research was provided by:
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
Article History
Received: 17 July 2025
Accepted: 31 October 2025
First Online: 29 November 2025
Declarations
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: All procedures followed were as per the ethical standards of the Committee on Human Experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. Informed consent was obtained from all patients included in the study. Approval was granted by the Institutional Ethics Committee of Kasturba Medical College and Kasturba Hospital (IEC1-36/2022, dated 09/02/2022). Consent for participation was obtained from healthy individuals through an informed consent form and a participation information form.
: The authors declare no competing interests.