About the Authors

Mahshid Dehghan

Mahshid.Dehghan@phri.ca

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Silvia del Cerro

Affiliation Clinical Research Department, Estudios Clínicos Latinoamérica (ECLA), Rosario, Argentina

Xiaohe Zhang

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Jose Maini Cuneo

Affiliation Clinical Research Department, Estudios Clínicos Latinoamérica (ECLA), Rosario, Argentina

Bruno Linetzky

Affiliation Clinical Research Department, Estudios Clínicos Latinoamérica (ECLA), Rosario, Argentina

Rafael Diaz

Affiliation Clinical Research Department, Estudios Clínicos Latinoamérica (ECLA), Rosario, Argentina

Anwar T. Merchant

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MD AM. Performed the experiments: SC JMC BL RD. Analyzed the data: XZ. Wrote the paper: MD AM RD.