About the Authors

Habiba I. Ali

habAli@uaeu.ac.ae

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Health, College of Food and Agriculture, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE

Amjad H. Jarrar

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Health, College of Food and Agriculture, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE

Mohamed El Sadig

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE

Karin B. Yeatts

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HIA. Analyzed the data: HIA AHJ MS KBY. Wrote the paper: HIA. Coordinated data collection: HIA AHJ. Contributed to drafting of the manuscript: AHJ. Contributed to critical revision of the manuscript: KBY MS. Read and approved the final version of the manuscript: HIA AHJ MS KBY.