About the Authors

Fatma Al-Maskari

fatma.am@uaeu.ac.ae

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain City, United Arab Emirates

Mohamed El-Sadig

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain City, United Arab Emirates

Juma M. Al-Kaabi

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain City, United Arab Emirates

Bachar Afandi

Affiliation Diabetes Center, Tawam Hospital in Affiliation with John Hopkins Medicine, Al-Ain City, United Arab Emirates

Nicolas Nagelkerke

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain City, United Arab Emirates

Karin B. Yeatts

Affiliation Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FM MS JK BA NN KBY. Performed the experiments: FM MS JK BA NN KBY. Analyzed the data: MS NN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FM MS JK BA NN KBY. Wrote the paper: FM MS JK BA NN KBY.