Miftahussurur, Muhammad
Aftab, Hafeza
Shrestha, Pradeep Krishna
Sharma, Rabi Prakash
Subsomwong, Phawinee
Waskito, Langgeng Agung
Doohan, Dalla
Fauzia, Kartika Afrida
Yamaoka, Yoshio http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1222-5819
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (DK62813)
World Class Professor Program (123.4/D2.3/KP/2018)
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (15H02657, 221S0002, 16H06279, 16H05191)
Article History
Received: 27 November 2018
Accepted: 30 January 2019
First Online: 15 February 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Written informed consent was obtained from all participants, and the protocol was approved by the Review Board or the Ethics Committee of the Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC), Dhaka, Bangladesh; TUTH, Kathmandu, Nepal, and Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Yufu, Japan.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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