Ramesh, Divya
Bakkannavar, Shankar M.
Bhat, Vinutha R.
Pai, K. Sreedhara Ranganath
Sharan, Krishna
Article History
Received: 11 February 2025
Accepted: 29 April 2025
First Online: 8 May 2025
Declarations
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: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 []. Informed consent was obtained from all patients included in the study. Approval was granted by the Institutional Ethics Committee of Kasturba Medical College and Kasturba Hospital on 04–07–2022 (number IEC:68/2022). Consent for participation was obtained from healthy individuals through an informed consent form and a participation information form.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.