About the Authors

Manu Raj

Contributed equally to this work with: Manu Raj, Raman Krishna Kumar

drmanuraj@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Kochi, Kerala, India

Mary Paul

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Kochi, Kerala, India

Abish Sudhakar

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Kochi, Kerala, India

Anu Alphonse Varghese

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Kochi, Kerala, India

Aareesh Chittulliparamb Haridas

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Kochi, Kerala, India

Conrad Kabali

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Consultant Epidemiologist, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada

Raman Krishna Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Manu Raj, Raman Krishna Kumar

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Kochi, Kerala, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR RKK. Performed the experiments: MP AAV CHA. Analyzed the data: MR RKK AS CK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MP AAV. Wrote the paper: MR RKK MP CK.