About the Authors

Iqra Ishtiaque

Affiliation University Medical and Dental College, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Kashif Shafique

k.shafique@duhs.edu.pk

Affiliations School of Public Health, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Public Health, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Zia Ul-Haq

Affiliations Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Public Health, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Institute of Public Health and Social Sciences, Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, KPK, Pakistan

Abdul Rauf Shaikh

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Naveed Ali Khan

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Abdul Rauf Memon

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Saira Saeed Mirza

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Afra Ishtiaque

Affiliation King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KS AI ZUH. Performed the experiments: II AI. Analyzed the data: SSM ZUH. Wrote the paper: II KS NAK ARS ARM.