About the Authors

Dong D. Wang

Affiliation The Departments of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Balkees A. Bakhotmah

Affiliation The Mohammad Hussein Al Amoudi Chair for Diabetic Foot Research, and the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Art and Design College, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Frank B. Hu

haaz59@yahoo.com (HAA); frank.hu@channing.harvard.edu (FBH)

Affiliations The Departments of Nutrition, and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, The Channing Division for Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hasan Ali Alzahrani

haaz59@yahoo.com (HAA); frank.hu@channing.harvard.edu (FBH)

Affiliation The Mohammad Hussein Al Amoudi Chair for Diabetic Foot Research, and the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Art and Design College, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BAB FBH HAA. Performed the experiments: BAB FBH HAA. Analyzed the data: DW BAB FBH HAA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BAB FBH HAA. Wrote the paper: DW.