About the Authors

Sushan Gautam

Contributed equally to this work with: Sushan Gautam, Abhinav Bhattarai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gsooshan@gmail.com

Affiliation Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Abhinav Bhattarai

Contributed equally to this work with: Sushan Gautam, Abhinav Bhattarai

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

Affiliation Arthur Riggs Diabetes and Metabolism Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Simran K.C.

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Roopal Singh

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Sanjit Sah

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

Affiliation SR Sanjeevani Hospital, Kalyanpur, Nepal

Bishal Budha

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Chandra Mani Poudel

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Manmohan Cardiothoracic Vascular and Transplant Center, Kathmandu, Nepal

Raja Ram Khanal

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Manmohan Cardiothoracic Vascular and Transplant Center, Kathmandu, Nepal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.