Sachdeva, Chandni
Acharya, Sujan Prakash
Sairam, Anand
Murali, Thokur Sreepathy https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1563-8077
Funding for this research was provided by:
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
Article History
Received: 3 July 2025
Accepted: 5 December 2025
First Online: 13 December 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was performed in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki and the study protocol was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee, Kasturba Hospital, Manipal, (IEC/2019/087) as well as registered with the Clinical Trials Registry - India (CTRI) under the ID CTRI/2020/01/022859. Prior informed consent was obtained from all participants in accordance with the declaration of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Government of India, following ethical guidelines.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants involved in the study.
: The authors affirm that human research participants provided informed consent for publication of the research data.