About the Authors

Brahmaiah Upputuri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

brahmaiah@leprahealthinaction.in

Affiliation Clinical Division, Blue Peter Public Health and Research Centre-LEPRA Society, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Aparna Srikantam

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical and Laboratory Research Division, Blue Peter Public Health and Research Centre-LEPRA Society, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Raja Sriswan Mamidi

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology, ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.