Kalaivanan, Dhanraj
Lakshmanan, Meenakshi
Das, Meghana
Saleem, Sumaiyya
AKR, Santhosh Priya
Chamarthi, Vishnu Rekha
Article History
Received: 1 February 2025
Accepted: 8 May 2025
First Online: 16 July 2025
Declarations
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: The research protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology (Protocol Approval Code: 366-IRB-IBSEC/SIST; dated April 16,2024) The study was conducted ethically following the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki. * Informed consent was obtained from the parent and/or legal guardian for all study participants prior to data collection and clinical examination. Only children with a signed parental consent who also provided verbal assent were included in the study. The rights of all subjects were protected, and all data were kept confidential.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.