Kumar, Manish
Srivastava, Shobhit
Muhammad, T. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1486-7038
Saravanakumar, Priya
Article History
Received: 27 April 2022
Accepted: 21 September 2022
First Online: 10 October 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) extended the necessary guidance, guidelines and ethical approval for conducting the LASI survey. And all methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations as per the Declaration of Helsinki.
: The survey agencies that conducted the field survey for the data collection collected prior consent (signed and oral) for both the interviews and biomarker tests from the eligible respondents in accordance with Human Subjects Protection.