About the Authors

Meena Daivadanam

meena.daivadanam@ikv.uu.se

Affiliations Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, 695011, India, Dept. of Public Health Sciences (Global Health), Tomtebodavagen 18A, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden, Dept. of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics, Uppsala University, Box 560, SE-751 22, Uppsala, Sweden

T. K. Sundari Ravindran

Affiliation Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, 695011, India

K. R. Thankappan

Affiliation Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, 695011, India

P. S. Sarma

Affiliation Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, 695011, India

Rolf Wahlström

Affiliations Dept. of Public Health Sciences (Global Health), Tomtebodavagen 18A, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden, Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Dept. of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MD RW. Formal analysis: MD. Funding acquisition: MD. Investigation: MD RW TKSR. Methodology: MD RW TKSR PSS KRT. Project administration: MD. Software: MD PSS. Supervision: RW KRT TKSR. Validation: PSS RW TKSR. Writing – original draft: MD. Writing – review & editing: RW TKSR KRT PSS.