About the Authors

Anny H. Xiang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Anny.H.Xiang@kp.org

Affiliation Department of Research & Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA, United States of America

Mary Helen Black

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Research & Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA, United States of America

Yu-Hsiang Shu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Research & Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA, United States of America

Jun Wu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Research & Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA, United States of America

Adrienne MacKay

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Corinna Koebnick

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Research & Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA, United States of America

Richard M. Watanabe

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Thomas A. Buchanan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.