Vijayakumar, Divya
Unnikrishnan, Gopikrishnan
Udit, Saraf
Sebastian, Chinnu Liz
George, Leah Elizabeth
Sathyapalan, Dipu
Menon, Veena
Kumar, Anil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7240-4691
Funding for this research was provided by:
Amrita Hospital, Faridabad
Article History
Received: 23 April 2026
Accepted: 3 August 2026
First Online: 18 August 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC), Amrita School of Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Kochi, Kerala, India (Approval No.: [ECASM-AIMS-2026-182]). The study was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and all applicable institutional guidelines and regulations. As this was a retrospective observational study using anonymized data extracted from electronic medical records, the requirement for informed consent to participate was waived by the Institutional Ethics Committee.
Consent for publication: Not applicable as anonymized data used for publication.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.