About the Authors

Mohammed Hadi Bestaoui

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

mohammedhadi.bestaoui@univ-tlemcen.dz

Affiliations Internal Medicine Department, Tlemcen University Hospital, Tlemcen, Algeria, Diabetes Research Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of Abou Bekr Belkaid Tlemcen, Tlemcen, Algeria

Ali Lounici

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Internal Medicine Department, Tlemcen University Hospital, Tlemcen, Algeria, Diabetes Research Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of Abou Bekr Belkaid Tlemcen, Tlemcen, Algeria

Amar Tebaibia

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Internal Medicine Department, El Biar Hospital, Algiers, Algeria

Latifa Henaoui

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Epidemiology Department, Tlemcen University Hospital, Tlemcen, Algeria

Nawal Brikci-Nigassa

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Diabetes Research Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of Abou Bekr Belkaid Tlemcen, Tlemcen, Algeria, Biochemistry Department, Tlemcen University Hospital, Tlemcen, Algeria

Houssem Baghous

Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diabetology and Endocrinology Department, Oran University Hospital, Oran, Algeria

Amel Bensefia

Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Internal Medicine Department, Tlemcen University Hospital, Tlemcen, Algeria, Diabetes Research Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of Abou Bekr Belkaid Tlemcen, Tlemcen, Algeria

Competing Interests

NO authors have competing interests. Mohammed Hadi Bestaoui, Ali Lounici, Amar Tebaibia, Latifa Henaoui, Nawal Brikci-Nigassa, Houssem Baghous, Amel Bensefia.