Upadya, Haridas
Prabhu, S.
Prasad, Aravinda
Subramanian, Deepa
Gupta, Swati
Goel, Ajay
Article History
Received: 26 April 2018
Accepted: 8 January 2019
First Online: 22 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was approved by respective institutional ethics committees where study was conducted, i.e. Mysore Clinical Research Ethics Committee on 22/2/2015 (study site: Aadhitya Adhikari Hospital, Contour Road, Gokulam, Mysore-570,002), Life Care Hospital Institutional Ethics Commitee on 15/3/2015 (study site: LifeCare Hospital, 99, OM Complex, 20th Main, Gangothri Circle, BTM 1st Stage, Bangalore-560,029), Sri Venkateshwara Hospital Ethics Committee on 15/3/2015 (Study site: Sri Venkateshwara Hospital, No.86, Hosur Main Road, Madiwala, Bangalore- 560,068) and Prashanth Hospital Ethics Committee on 17/3/2015 (study site: Prashanth Hospital, Bommanahalli Circle, Hosur Main Road, Bangalore-560,068) and registered with Clinical Trials Registry- India atExternalRef removed(Registration number: CTRI/2015/04/005682) on 8 April 2015 (retrospectively registered). Any study related activity was undertaken only after subjects voluntarily signed the consent form to participate in the study.
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