About the Authors

Gaelle Salame

Contributed equally to this work with: Gaelle Salame, Vincent Hakim, Clara Dagher, Rose-Mary Daou, Anthony El Dada, Lea Nassif

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

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of Balamand, Kalhat, Lebanon

Vincent Hakim

Contributed equally to this work with: Gaelle Salame, Vincent Hakim, Clara Dagher, Rose-Mary Daou, Anthony El Dada, Lea Nassif

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

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of Balamand, Kalhat, Lebanon

Clara Dagher

Contributed equally to this work with: Gaelle Salame, Vincent Hakim, Clara Dagher, Rose-Mary Daou, Anthony El Dada, Lea Nassif

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of Balamand, Kalhat, Lebanon

Rose-Mary Daou

Contributed equally to this work with: Gaelle Salame, Vincent Hakim, Clara Dagher, Rose-Mary Daou, Anthony El Dada, Lea Nassif

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

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of Balamand, Kalhat, Lebanon

Anthony El Dada

Contributed equally to this work with: Gaelle Salame, Vincent Hakim, Clara Dagher, Rose-Mary Daou, Anthony El Dada, Lea Nassif

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

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of Balamand, Kalhat, Lebanon

Lea Nassif

Contributed equally to this work with: Gaelle Salame, Vincent Hakim, Clara Dagher, Rose-Mary Daou, Anthony El Dada, Lea Nassif

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

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of Balamand, Kalhat, Lebanon

Hilda E. Ghadieh

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of Balamand, Kalhat, Lebanon, AUB Diabetes, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Sami Azar

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of Balamand, Kalhat, Lebanon, AUB Diabetes, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Samer Bazzi

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

samer.bazzi@balamand.edu.lb (SB); frederic.harb@balamand.edu.lb (FH)

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of Balamand, Kalhat, Lebanon

Frederic Harb

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

samer.bazzi@balamand.edu.lb (SB); frederic.harb@balamand.edu.lb (FH)

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of Balamand, Kalhat, Lebanon, AUB Diabetes, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.