About the Authors

Sabrina Ahmed

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

Affiliations NCD Epidemiology Research Center (NERC), Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan, Department of Public Health, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Zhang Hexun

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Yuichiro Yano

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

Affiliations NCD Epidemiology Research Center (NERC), Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan, Department of General Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Yukiko Okami

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

Affiliations NCD Epidemiology Research Center (NERC), Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan, Gunma University Center for Food Science and Wellness, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

Nazar Mohd Azahar

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations NCD Epidemiology Research Center (NERC), Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Cawangan Pulau Pinang, Kampus Bertam, Malaysia

Keiko Kondo

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation NCD Epidemiology Research Center (NERC), Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Hisatomi Arima

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan

Sayuki Torii

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation NCD Epidemiology Research Center (NERC), Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Mohammad Moniruzzaman

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation NCD Epidemiology Research Center (NERC), Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Gantsetseg Ganbaatar

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation NCD Epidemiology Research Center (NERC), Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Aya Kadota

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation NCD Epidemiology Research Center (NERC), Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Akira Andoh

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Akihiko Shiino

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Neuroscience Research Center, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Hirotsugu Ueshima

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation NCD Epidemiology Research Center (NERC), Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Katsuyuki Miura

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

miura@belle.shiga-med.ac.jp

Affiliation NCD Epidemiology Research Center (NERC), Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

for the SESSA Research Group

Membership of the SESSA Research Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.