About the Authors

Liana Shengelaia

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

L.shengel07@gmail.com

Affiliation Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Medicine, Tbilisi, Georgia

Emeli J. Anderson

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

Affiliation Health Research Union and Clinic NeoLab, Tbilisi, Georgia

Maia Butsashvili

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Health Research Union and Clinic NeoLab, Tbilisi, Georgia

Lasha Gulbiani

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization

Affiliation Health Research Union and Clinic NeoLab, Tbilisi, Georgia

Giorgi Kanchelashvili

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Health Research Union and Clinic NeoLab, Tbilisi, Georgia

Jack Dehovitz

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Department of Medicine, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Mamuka Djibuti

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Partnership for Research and Action for Health, Tbilisi, Georgia

Tomoko Udo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The College of Integrated Health Sciences, University at Albany, New York, United States of America

George Kamkamidze

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Health Research Union and Clinic NeoLab, Tbilisi, Georgia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.