About the Authors

Rekha Patil

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

☯ Authors contributed equally and shared first authorship

Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belagavi, India

Asif Kavathekar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

☯ Authors contributed equally and shared first authorship

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research - National Institute of Traditional Medicine, Belagavi (ICMR-NITM Belagavi), Belagavi, India

Madhav Prabhu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

☯ Authors contributed equally and shared first authorship

Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belagavi, India

Madhavi Patil

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research - National Institute of Traditional Medicine, Belagavi (ICMR-NITM Belagavi), Belagavi, India

Ameya Kejriwal

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belagavi, India

Kamran Zaman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

bhatdr@gmail.com (JB); kamran3zaman@gmail.com (KZ)

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research - National Institute of Traditional Medicine, Belagavi (ICMR-NITM Belagavi), Belagavi, India

Jyothi Bhat

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

bhatdr@gmail.com (JB); kamran3zaman@gmail.com (KZ)

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research - National Institute of Traditional Medicine, Belagavi (ICMR-NITM Belagavi), Belagavi, India

Subarna Roy

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research - National Institute of Traditional Medicine, Belagavi (ICMR-NITM Belagavi), Belagavi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.