About the Authors

Shamima Saloojee

saloojees1@ukzn.ac.za

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu - Natal, Durban, South Africa

Jonathan K Burns

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu - Natal, Durban, South Africa

Ayesha A Motala

Affiliation Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu - Natal, Durban, South Africa

Competing Interests

the authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS JKB AAM. Performed the experiments: SS. Analyzed the data: SS JKB AAM. Wrote the paper: SS JKB AAM.