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Kumar Venkatesan, Email: kvenkatesan@kku.edu.sa
P.P.: Conceptualization, formal analysis, investigation, methodology, project administration, resources, software, supervision, validation, visualization, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing. V.E.: data curation, formal analysis, methodology, project administration, resources, validation, writing—review and editing. R.A.: Conceptualization, methodology, project administration, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing. S.H.A.: conceptualization, methodology, project administration, resources, supervision, validation, visualization, writing—review and editing. K.V. (Krishnaraju Venkatesan): conceptualization, formal analysis, funding acquisition, methodology, project administration, resources, software, supervision, validation, visualization, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing. A.A.Q.: conceptualization, data curation, methodology, project administration, validation, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing. M.M.A.: data curation, formal analysis, methodology, project administration, validation, visualization, writing—review and editing. K.P. (Kousalya Prabahar): formal analysis, methodology, project administration, software, supervision, validation, visualization, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing. K.P. (Kalaiselvi Periannan): data curation, formal analysis, methodology, project administration, resources, validation, writing—review and editing. R.V.: conceptualization, investigation, methodology, project administration, resources, software, supervision, validation, visualization, writing—review and editing. G.K.: data curation, formal analysis, methodology, project administration, validation, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing. K.C.: conceptualization, investigation, methodology, project administration, supervision, writing—review and editing. E.M.P.: conceptualization, investigation, methodology, project administration, supervision, writing—review and editing. K.V. (Kumar Venkatesan): formal analysis, methodology, project administration, resources, software, validation, writing—review and editing. V.M.: conceptualization, investigation, data curation, project administration, resources, supervision, validation, visualization, writing—review and editing. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
The authors extend their sincere appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Khalid University for funding this study through the Large Research Group Project under grant number “RGP 2/186/42”. We also extend our gratitude to the mothers and families of both the study and control group and the research assistants.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This research was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Khalid University, grant number “RGP 2/186/42”.
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