About the Authors

Elsy hany El Tawil

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

elsy.tawil@gmail.com

Affiliation School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Holy Spirit University Of Kaslik, Kaslik, Lebanon

Rita Saliby

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Holy Spirit University Of Kaslik, Kaslik, Lebanon

Ramy Halabi

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Holy Spirit University Of Kaslik, Kaslik, Lebanon

Joey El Khoury

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Holy Spirit University Of Kaslik, Kaslik, Lebanon

Serge Assaf

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Holy Spirit University Of Kaslik, Kaslik, Lebanon

Mira Hamdan

Roles Validation

Affiliation School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Holy Spirit University Of Kaslik, Kaslik, Lebanon

Gilbert Abou Nader

Roles Resources, Validation

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology Division, University of Balamand, Koura, Lebanon

Elizabeth Abou Jaoude

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

Affiliations School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Holy Spirit University Of Kaslik, Kaslik, Lebanon, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology Division, University of Balamand, Koura, Lebanon, Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology Division, Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Jbeil, Lebanon

Competing Interests

all authors declare no competing interest exists.