Narayanan, Raja http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9688-5859
Kelkar, Aditya
Abbas, Zahir
Goel, Neha
Soman, Manoj
Naik, Naveen
Sudhalkar, Aditya
Walinjkar, Jaydeep
Shah, Utkarsh
Maksane, Nitin
Funding for this research was provided by:
Novartis Healthcare Pvt Ltd
Article History
Received: 16 September 2020
Accepted: 4 December 2020
First Online: 12 January 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The purpose of the study was informed to all patients, and their written consent was obtained in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki. The study was approved by the following Ethics Committees at respective sites. OrderedList removed
: Not Applicable.
: Dr. Utkarsh Shah is a medical advisor and Dr. Nitin Maksane is a franchise medical head. Both are employees of Novartis Healthcare Private Limited, India. Dr. Raja Narayanan, Dr. Aditya Kelkar, Dr. Zahir Abbas, Dr. Neha Goel, Dr. Manoj Soman, Dr. Naveen Naik, Dr. Aditya Sudhalkar and Dr. Jaydeep Walinjkar were the investigators of the regulatory mandated phase 4 study undertaken by Novartis Healthcare Private Limited. Although the study was funded by Novartis Healthcare Private Limited, there was no interference with the independent analysis of the data. They do not have any competing interests.