Rashid, Munazza
Ahmed, Rifat Zubair
Usmani, Muhammad Asad
Mukry, Samina Naz
Zaidi, Uzma
Asghar, Muhammad Nadeem
Funding for this research was provided by:
International Research Support Initiative Program (IRSIP) Higher Education Commission, Pakistan
University of Karachi (Dean of Science Research Grant)
Article History
Received: 4 February 2024
Accepted: 8 May 2025
First Online: 4 August 2025
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the ethics committee of NIBD. Informed written consent was obtained from all patients before capturing the data in the electronic database system.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.