Raj, Jeffrey Pradeep http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8621-6106
Venkatachalam, Shreeraam
Amaravati, Rajkumar. S.
Baburajan, Ramya http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8853-5285
Oommen, Aswathy Maria
Jose, Jesin Elsa
R, Rajad.
R, Reshmi.
George, Melvin
Ramraj, Balaji
Gopalakrishnan, Bhuvaneswari
Kumar, T. Suresh
Saleem, Ahammed K.
Rai, Mohandas
Penumutsa, Vijay Subbaraju
Bodda, Deepthi Rani
Prasanna, B. Lakshmi
Manderwad, Guru Prasad
S, Rajiv
Bhandare, Basavaraj
Mada, Prashanth
Mathai, Dilip
Aiyappan, Rajalakshmi
Mathew, Philip
Article History
Received: 8 February 2022
Accepted: 20 April 2022
First Online: 18 May 2022
Declarations
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: The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee – St. Johns National Academy of Health Sciences, Bengaluru, India i.e., the IEC of the lead investigator (vide reference number 214/2017 dated 12 September 2017) based on which administrative and ethics committee permissions were obtained from all the collaborating institutions. Further, a written informed consent was signed by all participants. All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines/ regulations and in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: It was not appropriate to involve patients or the public in the design, or conduct, or reporting, or dissemination plans of our research.