About the Authors

Mohammed K. Ali

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammed K. Ali, Kavita Singh, Dimple Kondal

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Emory Global Diabetes Research Center, Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Kavita Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammed K. Ali, Kavita Singh, Dimple Kondal

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, Public Health Foundation of India, Gurgaon, India

Dimple Kondal

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammed K. Ali, Kavita Singh, Dimple Kondal

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

Affiliation Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India

Raji Devarajan

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

Affiliation Public Health Foundation of India, Gurgaon, India

Shivani A. Patel

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Emory Global Diabetes Research Center, Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

V. Usha Menon

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

Affiliation Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of Endocrinology & Diabetes, AIMS Ponekkara, Kochi, India

Premlata K. Varthakavi

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

Affiliation TNM College & BYL Nair Charity Hospital, Department of Endocrinology, Mumbai, India

Vijay Vishwanathan

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

Affiliation MV Hospital for Diabetes & Diabetes Research Centre, Chennai, India

Mala Dharmalingam

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

Affiliation Bangalore Endocrinology & Diabetes Research Centre, Bangalore, India

Ganapati Bantwal

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

Affiliation St. John’s Medical College & Hospital, Department of Endocrinology, Bangalore, India

Rakesh Kumar Sahay

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

Affiliation Osmania General Hospital, Department of Endocrinology, Hyderabad, India

Muhammad Qamar Masood

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

Affiliation Aga Khan University, Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Karachi, Pakistan

Rajesh Khadgawat

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

Affiliation All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Biotechnology Block, New Delhi, India

Ankush Desai

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

Affiliation Goa Medical College, Department of Endocrinology, Bambolim, India

Dorairaj Prabhakaran

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

Affiliations Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India, Centre for Control of Chronic Conditions, Public Health Foundation of India, Gurgaon, India

K. M. Venkat Narayan

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

Affiliation Emory Global Diabetes Research Center, Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Nikhil Tandon

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

nikhil_tandon@hotmail.com

Affiliation All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Biotechnology Block, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: MKA has received research support (to Emory University) from Merck and consulting fees from Bayer and Eli Lilly, all outside the scope of this work. SP received research funding in the area of CVD implementation sciences. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.