No funding was received for the conduct of this study or the preparation of this article.
Conflicts of Interest/Competing InterestsUpinder Kaur, Aakanksha Jaiswal, Ayushi Jaiswal, Kunal Singh, Aditi Pandey, Mayank Chauhan, Mahek Rai, Sangeeta Kansal, Kishor Patwardhan, Vaibhav Jaisawal, and Sankha Shubhra Chakrabarti have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.
Ethics ApprovalThe study was conducted after permission from the Institute Ethics Committee of the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University. No human experimentation was performed. All procedures were performed as per the Declaration of Helsinki and its subsequent modifications (Ethical Approval number: Dean/2022/EC/3210 and Dean/2021/EC/2526).
Consent to ParticipateWritten informed consent/assent to participate was obtained from each participant in the study.
Consent for PublicationWritten informed consent/assent for publication was obtained from all participants.
Availability of Data and MaterialAll data produced in the present study are available upon reasonable request to the corresponding authors, as per institutional and national legal norms and procedures.
Code AvailabilityNot applicable.
Authors’ ContributionsConceptualization: UK, SSC, SK, VJ, KP. Methodology: UK, SSC, VJ. Formal analysis and investigation: UK, VJ, AJ, AJ, KS, AP, MC, MR. Writing, original draft preparation: UK, AJ AJ, KS, MR. Writing, review and editing: UK, SSC. Funding acquisition: none. Resources: none. Supervision: UK, VJ. All authors read and approved the final version.
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