About the Authors

Dilan Giguruwa Gamage

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Michaela A. Riddell

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Rohina Joshi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India

Kavumpurathu R. Thankappan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Clara K. Chow

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Department of Cardiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Brian Oldenburg

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Roger G. Evans

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiovascular Disease Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Physiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ajay S. Mahal

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Nossal Institute for Global Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Kartik Kalyanram

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rishi Valley Rural Health Centre, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India

Kamakshi Kartik

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rishi Valley Rural Health Centre, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India

Oduru Suresh

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Rishi Valley Rural Health Centre, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India

Nihal Thomas

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Gomathyamma K. Mini

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India, Global Institute of Public Health, Ananthapuri Hospitals and Research Institute, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Pallab K. Maulik

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India, George Institute for Global Health, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

Velandai K. Srikanth

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Peninsula Clinical School, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Frankston, Victoria, Australia

Simin Arabshahi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ravi P. Varma

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Rama K. Guggilla

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India, Department of Population Medicine and Civilization Diseases Prevention, Faculty of Medicine, Division of Dentistry and Division of Medical Education in English, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland

Fabrizio D’Esposito

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Thirunavukkarasu Sathish

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Centre for Population Health Sciences, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Mohammed Alim

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom

Amanda G. Thrift

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

amanda.thrift@monash.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: CKC reports grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and National Heart Foundation, outside the submitted work; RGE reports grants from the NHMRC, during the conduct of the study. KKal, KKar and AGT report grants from NHMRC for this study and for other projects outside the submitted work; RKG reports a grant from the European Commission and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Republic of Poland under the H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2016-DP Grant (Grant Agreement No. 754432). RKG reports being a stock holder in three Indian multinational pharmaceutical (Ajanta Pharma Limited, Divi’s Laboratories Limited, and NATCO Pharma Limited); no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work exist.