About the Authors

Thilini W. Hettiarachchi

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

hatwasana@gmail.com

Affiliation Centre for Education, Research and Training on Kidney Diseases (CERTKiD), Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Galaha, Sri Lanka

Buddhi N. T. W. Fernando

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka

Thilini Sudeshika

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Peradeniya, Galaha, Sri Lanka

Zeid Badurdeen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Education, Research and Training on Kidney Diseases (CERTKiD), Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Galaha, Sri Lanka

Shuchi Anand

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ajith Kularatne

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiology Unit, Teaching Hospital, Kandy, Sri Lanka

Sulochana Wijetunge

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Galaha, Sri Lanka

Hemalika T. K. Abeysundara

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya, Galaha, Sri Lanka

Nishantha Nanayakkara

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Transplant and Dialysis Unit, Teaching Hospital, Kandy, Sri Lanka

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.