About the Authors

Mariam Wed Eladham

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

Affiliation Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Narjes Saheb Sharif-Askari

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Bushra Mdkhana

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Shirin Ali

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Baraa Khalid Salah Al-Sheakly

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Nival Ali

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Balachandar Selvakumar

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Fatemeh Saheb Sharif-Askari

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmacotherapeutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Ibrahim Hachim

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Rabih Halwani

Roles Investigation, Supervision

rhalwani@sharjah.ac.ae

Affiliations Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, King Saud University Celiac Disease Research Chair, Department of Pediatric, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Health and wellbeing sector, NEOM, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia,, Prince Fahad Bin Sultan chair for Biomedical Research, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia,, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.