About the Authors

Sumaiyah Mat

Contributed equally to this work with: Sumaiyah Mat, Pey June Tan

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Ageing and Age-Associated Disorders Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Pey June Tan

Contributed equally to this work with: Sumaiyah Mat, Pey June Tan

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Ageing and Age-Associated Disorders Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Chin Teck Ng

Affiliations Ageing and Age-Associated Disorders Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Department of Rheumatology & Immunology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapare

Farhana Fadzli

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Faizatul I. Rozalli

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ee Ming Khoo

Affiliation Department of Primary Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Keith D. Hill

Affiliation School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Maw Pin Tan

mptan@ummc.edu.my

Affiliations Ageing and Age-Associated Disorders Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CTN EMK KDH MPT. Performed the experiments: SM PJT MPT. Analyzed the data: SM PJT MPT. Wrote the paper: SM PJT CTN FF FIR EMK KDH MPT.