Can fingernail quality predict bone damage in Type 2 diabetes mellitus? a pilot study

• Praveer Sihota,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab, India

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• Rimesh Pal,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

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• Ram Naresh Yadav,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab, India

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• Deepak Neradi,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

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• Shailesh Karn,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

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• Vijay G. Goni,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

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• Siddhartha Sharma,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

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• Vishwajeet Mehandia,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab, India

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• Sanjay Kumar Bhadada ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bhadadask@rediffmail.com (SKB); nkumar@iitrpr.ac.in (NK)

  Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

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• Navin Kumar ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bhadadask@rediffmail.com (SKB); nkumar@iitrpr.ac.in (NK)

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7958-8155

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• Sudhaker D. Rao

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Bone and Mineral Metabolism, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, United States of America

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