C., Chandana
H. R., Subhodha
Patil, Renuka
Article History
Received: 29 June 2024
Accepted: 12 September 2025
First Online: 12 November 2025
Declarations
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: This study was conducted after the approval from the Institutional Ethics Committee (YEC 1/202) under tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki as per national Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research involving human participants of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 2017.
: A written informed consent for publication was obtained from all participants for publication.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.