About the Authors

Nur Hasnah Maamor

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

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UCSI University, UCSI Hospital, Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, Evidence Based Healthcare Sector, National Institute of Health (NIH), Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

Alvin Cengnata

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Applied Science, UCSI University, Wilayah Persekutuan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Yuwen Pan

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Johan Rizal Ismail

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cardiology Unit, Prince Court Medical Centre, Jalan Kia Peng, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, UiTM Private Specialist Centre, Jalan Hospital, Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia, MAA Medicare Cardiac Diagnostic Centre, Titiwangsa Central, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Khasnur Abd Malek

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Primary Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Selangor Branch, Jalan Hospital, Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia

Gordon H. Williams

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

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension, Brigham and Women’s, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Khalid Yusoff

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UCSI University, UCSI Hospital, Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

Hoh Boon-Peng

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hoh.boonpeng@gmail.com

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UCSI University, UCSI Hospital, Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, Division of Applied Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Health Sciences, IMU University, Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

All authors have declared that no competing interests exist.