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Ajit Sood is on the advisory board of Janssen Pharmaceuticals (Asia–Pacific) and received honorarium for speaker events from Pfizer India and Takeda India. Arshdeep Singh and Ajit Sood are supported by an IOIBD grant for an unrelated project. The remaining authors disclose no conflicts.