About the Authors

Jaideep C. Menon

menon7jc@gmail.com

Affiliation Professor, Adult Cardiology and Public Health, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, India

Bipin Nair

Affiliation Professor & Dean, Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam, India

Sanghamitra Pati

Affiliation Director, ICMR, Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneswar, India

Vijay V. Pillay

Affiliation Head, Poison Control Centre and Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, India

Amarendra Mahapatra

Affiliation Scientist G, ICMR, Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneswar, India

T. P. Sreekrishnan

Affiliation Consultant, Emergency Medicine & Critical Care, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, India

Muralidharan Vanuopadath

Affiliation Assistant Professor, Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam, India

Denny John

Affiliation Professor, Faculty of Life and Allied Health Sciences, Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru, India

Sabarish B. Nair

Affiliation Consultant, Emergency Medicine & Critical Care, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, India

Prakash K. Sahoo

Affiliation Scientist D, ICMR, Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneswar, India

Aravind M. S.

Affiliation Research Associate, Department of Public Health, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, India

Aswathy Sreedevi

Affiliation Professor & Head, Department of Community Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, India

Chandrasekhar Jankiram

Affiliation Professor & Head, Public Health Dentistry, Amrita School of Dentistry, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, India

Joseph K. Joseph

Affiliation Senior Consultant Nephrologist, Little Flower Hospital and Research Centre, Angamaly, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.