Miftahussurur, Muhammad
Aftab, Hafeza
Shrestha, Pradeep Krishna
Sharma, Rabi Prakash
Subsomwong, Phawinee
Waskito, Langgeng Agung
Doohan, Dalla
Fauzia, Kartika Afrida
Yamaoka, Yoshio https://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)
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (221S0002)
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (16H06279)
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (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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