DETAILS OF ETHICS APPROVAL
The study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Boards at University of California, Berkeley (Protocol #2017-03-9670; Dated 4th April 2017) and Public Health Research Institute of India, Mysore (Protocol #2017-04-01-36; Dated 1stApril 2017).
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Table 1: Demographic and Clinical Characteristics Women in rural Mysore, India (N=120)