About the Authors

Parthibane Sivanantham

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

Jayaprakash Sahoo

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

Subitha Lakshminarayanan

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

Zachariah Bobby

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

Sitanshu Sekhar Kar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

drsitanshukar@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.