About the Authors

Lucia Tabacu

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

Affiliation Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America

Sajag Swami

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India

Mark Ledbetter

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation BWX Technologies, Nuclear Operations Group, Lynchburg, Virginia, United States of America

Mohamad S. Siddiqui

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Div. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Ekaterina Smirnova

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

esmirnova@vcu.edu

Affiliation Dept. of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

Conflicts of Interest: Dr. Mohammad Shadab Siddiqui: AMRA (Advisory Board), NovoNordisk (Consultant), Sagimet (Consult).