About the Authors

Jaideep C. Menon

Contributed equally to this work with: Jaideep C. Menon, Omesh K. Bharti, Denny John, Geetha R. Menon, Joy K. Chakma

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

menon7jc@gmail.com

Affiliation Preventive Cardiology & Population Health Sciences, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India

Omesh K. Bharti

Contributed equally to this work with: Jaideep C. Menon, Omesh K. Bharti, Denny John, Geetha R. Menon, Joy K. Chakma

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Health & Family Welfare, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India

Rupinder S. Dhaliwal

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

‡ RSD and AG also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Non-communicable Diseases Division, Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, India

Denny John

Contributed equally to this work with: Jaideep C. Menon, Omesh K. Bharti, Denny John, Geetha R. Menon, Joy K. Chakma

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

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India

Geetha R. Menon

Contributed equally to this work with: Jaideep C. Menon, Omesh K. Bharti, Denny John, Geetha R. Menon, Joy K. Chakma

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation National Institute of Medical Statistics- ICMR, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India

Ashoo Grover

Roles Conceptualization

‡ RSD and AG also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Research Methodology Cell, Non Communicable diseases, Division, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India

Joy K. Chakma

Contributed equally to this work with: Jaideep C. Menon, Omesh K. Bharti, Denny John, Geetha R. Menon, Joy K. Chakma

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Division, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have no competing interest to declare with regards to the present project/manuscript