About the Authors

Naim Mahroum

Contributed equally to this work with: Naim Mahroum, Mohammad Adawi

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Medicine 'B', Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Mohammad Adawi

Contributed equally to this work with: Naim Mahroum, Mohammad Adawi

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Zefat, Israel, Padeh and Ziv Medical Centers, Zefat, Israel

Kassem Sharif

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine 'B', Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, The Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel

Roy Waknin

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Hussein Mahagna

Roles Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Medicine 'B', Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Bishara Bisharat

Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Society for Health Promotion of the Arab Community, Nazareth, Israel

Mahmud Mahamid

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Zefat, Israel, Endoscopy Unit of the Nazareth Hospital EMMS, Nazareth, Israel

Arsalan Abu-Much

Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine 'B', Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Howard Amital

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine 'B', Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, The Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel

Nicola Luigi Bragazzi

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliations Society for Health Promotion of the Arab Community, Nazareth, Israel, School of Public Health, Department of Health Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Abdulla Watad

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

watad.abdulla@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Medicine 'B', Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, The Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.