About the Authors

Rahul Mittal

Contributed equally to this work with: Rahul Mittal, Keelin McKenna

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

r.mittal11@med.miami.edu (RM); khirani@med.miami.edu (KH)

Affiliations Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Keelin McKenna

Contributed equally to this work with: Rahul Mittal, Keelin McKenna

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

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Grant Keith

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

Affiliation School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Joana R. N. Lemos

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

Affiliation Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Jeenu Mittal

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

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Khemraj Hirani

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

r.mittal11@med.miami.edu (RM); khirani@med.miami.edu (KH)

Affiliation Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.