About the Authors

Reka Karuppusami

Contributed equally to this work with: Reka Karuppusami, Senthil K. Vasan

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

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Belavendra Antonisami

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Senthil K. Vasan

Contributed equally to this work with: Reka Karuppusami, Senthil K. Vasan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Churchill Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Mahasampath Gowri

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

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Hepsy Y. Selliah

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

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Geethanjali Arulappan

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Felix Jebasingh

Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Nihal Thomas

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Thomas V. Paul

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

thomasvpaul@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.