About the Authors

Walter Conca

Contributed equally to this work with: Walter Conca, Nicolaas Nagelkerke

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

wconca@kfshrc.edu.sa, concawalter6@gmail.com

‡ MA, FA and MWF also contributed equally to this work. WC and NN are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Department of Executive Health Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Department of Cell Biology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Mayyadah Alabdely

Roles Data curation, Investigation

‡ MA, FA and MWF also contributed equally to this work. WC and NN are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Faisal Albaiz

Roles Data curation, Investigation

‡ MA, FA and MWF also contributed equally to this work. WC and NN are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Michael Warren Foster

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

‡ MA, FA and MWF also contributed equally to this work. WC and NN are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Executive Health Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Maha Alamri

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Morad Alkaff

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Futwan Al-Mohanna

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Nicolaas Nagelkerke

Contributed equally to this work with: Walter Conca, Nicolaas Nagelkerke

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

Current address: Goetzens, Austria (retired)

‡ MA, FA and MWF also contributed equally to this work. WC and NN are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, United Arab University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Reem Saad Almaghrabi

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.