About the Authors

Sabiha Nasrin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md. Tariqujjaman

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

Affiliation Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Marufa Sultana

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Deakin Health Economics, School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

Rifat A. Zaman

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Shahjahan Ali

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mohammod J. Chisti

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abu S. G. Faruque

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

gfaruque@icddrb.org

Affiliation Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Tahmeed Ahmed

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

George J. Fuchs

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine and Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Niklaus Gyr

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Nur H. Alam

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

Affiliation Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.