Saxena, Vijaylaxmi
Abhilash, Dasari
Budhraja, Anshul
Dey, Sudip
Tiwari, Pawan
Mohan, Anant
Gupta, Ishaan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7176-2980
Kumar, Sachin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2594-6770
Funding for this research was provided by:
Anusandhan National Research Foundation, New Delhi (CRG/2021/001586)
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi (27/0375/23/EMR-II)
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (A-773)
Article History
Received: 5 March 2025
Accepted: 29 January 2026
First Online: 3 February 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study received approval from the Institute Ethics Committee of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (Ref. No. IEC-696/07.08.2020, RP-18/2020, IEC-25/14.01.2022, RP-05/2022, and IEC-271/16.05.2023). This article does not include any animal studies performed by the authors. All procedures involving human participants adhered to the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee, following the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its subsequent amendments or comparable ethical guidelines.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The authors affirm that this article does not disclose the name, photographs or any other information of the human research participants that may reveal their identity.