Doddamani, Akhila http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3568-0774
Ballala, A. B. Kirthinath http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7460-5342
Madhyastha, Sharath P. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2821-3473
Kamath, Asha http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0727-8067
Kulkarni, Muralidhar M. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3588-2165
Funding for this research was provided by:
Indian Council of Medical Research (No.3/2/June-2017/PG-Thesis-HRD(28))
KMC PG Research Grant (-)
Article History
Received: 14 May 2020
Accepted: 3 February 2021
First Online: 27 February 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the Kasturba Medical College and Kasturba Hospital Institutional Ethics Committee (Registration No. ECR/146/Inst/KA/2013/RR-16) before the study’s initiation (IEC 575/2017). Permission from the President of the fishermen association and written informed consent from all the participant was obtained before recruiting them. The study was prospectively registered in the Clinical Trials Registry of India- CTRI/2017/12/010731. The data obtained during the study were kept confidential and anonymized before analysis.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.