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Nedunchezhian, Suriya
Shetty, Athish
Bhat, Ganesh https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0707-3459
Shetty, Shiran
Musunuri, Balaji
Pai, C Ganesh
Rajpurohit, Siddheesh
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Article History
Received: 26 March 2025
Accepted: 23 September 2025
First Online: 11 November 2025
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: The study conformed to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and current ethical regulations; The study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of Kasturba Medical College and Kasturba Hospital Institutional Ethics Committee. (Approval No-IEC-100/2023) before the study was conducted, and the study was registered with the Clinical Trial Registry - India (CTRI) (Reference number: 069424). Informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to their inclusion in the study.
: The authors agreed to have their study published in this journal. Availability of supporting data - The data that support the findings of this study are not openly available due to reasons of sensitivity and are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
