About the Authors

Swati Bhardwaj

Affiliations National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Diseases Foundation (N-DOC), SDA, New Delhi, India, Diabetes Foundation (India), SDA, New Delhi, India

Anoop Misra

anoopmisra@metabolicresearchindia.com

Affiliations National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Diseases Foundation (N-DOC), SDA, New Delhi, India, Diabetes Foundation (India), SDA, New Delhi, India, Fortis CDOC Center for Excellence for Diabetes, Metabolic Diseases and Endocrinology, Fortis Flt. Lt. Rajan Dhall Hospital, New Delhi, India, Center for Internal Medicine, Fortis Flt. Lt. Rajan Dhall Hospital, New Delhi, India

Ranjita Misra

Affiliation Department of Health and Kinesiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Kashish Goel

Affiliations National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Diseases Foundation (N-DOC), SDA, New Delhi, India, Diabetes Foundation (India), SDA, New Delhi, India, Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Surya Prakash Bhatt

Affiliations National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Diseases Foundation (N-DOC), SDA, New Delhi, India, Diabetes Foundation (India), SDA, New Delhi, India, Department of Biochemistry and Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Kavita Rastogi

Affiliation Diabetes Foundation (India), SDA, New Delhi, India

Naval K. Vikram

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Seema Gulati

Affiliations National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Diseases Foundation (N-DOC), SDA, New Delhi, India, Diabetes Foundation (India), SDA, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM RM NKV. Performed the experiments: KR SPB. Analyzed the data: SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SPB KG. Wrote the paper: SB AM KG. Interpreted data: SB. Revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content: AM SB KG SG.