About the Authors

Toqa Darwish

Contributed equally to this work with: Toqa Darwish, Azhar Al-Khulaifi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Basic Medical Sciences Department, College of Medicine, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Azhar Al-Khulaifi

Contributed equally to this work with: Toqa Darwish, Azhar Al-Khulaifi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Basic Medical Sciences Department, College of Medicine, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Menatalla Ali

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Basic Medical Sciences Department, College of Medicine, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Rana Mowafy

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Basic Medical Sciences Department, College of Medicine, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Abdelilah Arredouani

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diabetes Center, Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Education City, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar

Suhail A. Doi

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

memara@qu.edu.qa (SAD); sdoi@qu.edu.qa (MME)

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, College of Medicine, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Mohamed M. Emara

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

memara@qu.edu.qa (SAD); sdoi@qu.edu.qa (MME)

Affiliation Basic Medical Sciences Department, College of Medicine, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.