About the Authors

Shimoni Urvish Shah

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Evelyn Xiu Ling Loo

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore

Chun En Chua

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Guan Sen Kew

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Alla Demutska

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Psychology, James Cook University, Singapore, Singapore

Sabrina Quek

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Scott Wong

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Hui Xing Lau

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore

En Xian Sarah Low

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Tze Liang Loh

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolarygology, Head and Neck Surgery, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

Ooi Shien Lung

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, Columbia Asia Hospital, Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia

Emily C. W. Hung

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cambridge Paediatrics, Shatin, Hong Kong

M. Masudur Rahman

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Sheikh Russel National Gastroliver Institute and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Uday C. Ghoshal

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute Medical Science, Lucknow, India

Sunny H. Wong

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

Cynthia K. Y. Cheung

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Ari F. Syam

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

Niandi Tan

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departments of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Yinglian Xiao

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departments of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Jin-Song Liu

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Wuhan Union Hospital of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Fang Lu

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Chien-Lin Chen

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi Hospital and University School of Medicine, Hualien, Taiwan

Yeong Yeh Lee

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations St George & Sutherland Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Gut Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ruter M. Maralit

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Medical City, Metro Manila, Philippines

Yong-Sung Kim

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wonkwang Digestive Disease Research Institute, Gut and Food Healthcare, Wonkwang University School of Medicine, Iksan, South Korea

Tadayuki Oshima

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

Hiroto Miwa

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

Kewin Tien Ho Siah

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

Affiliations Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore, Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Junxiong Pang

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

pangv@hotmail.com

Affiliations Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.