Ahamad, Vasim https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4789-0904
Akhtar, Shamrin
Pal, Sanjay Kumar
Bhagat, Ram B.
Article History
Received: 5 August 2024
Accepted: 21 April 2025
First Online: 1 May 2025
Declarations
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: This study is based on a secondary data analysis from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) Wave-I, 2017–18. The LASI survey received ethical approval from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), which follows international ethical guidelines, including the Declaration of Helsinki. All procedures involving human participants during the original data collection were conducted per these ethical standards. Since this study utilizes publicly available data, no additional ethical approval or informed consent was required for this analysis.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.