About the Authors
- Abeer M. Mahmoud
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Contributed equally to this work with: Abeer M. Mahmoud, Umaima Al-Alem
* E-mail: amahmo4@uic.edu
Affiliations Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition and Department of Physical Therapy, School of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Pathology, South Egypt Cancer Institute, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt
- Umaima Al-Alem
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Contributed equally to this work with: Abeer M. Mahmoud, Umaima Al-Alem
Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Firas Dabbous
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Affiliation James R. & Helen D. Russell Institute for Research & Innovation, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, Illinois, United States of America
- Mohamed M. Ali
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Affiliation Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition and Department of Physical Therapy, School of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Ken Batai
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
- Ebony Shah
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
- Rick A. Kittles
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: AMM UA. Data curation: AMM UA FD RAK. Formal analysis: AMM UA FD. Funding acquisition: RAK AMM. Investigation: AMM UA FD MMA KB ES RAK. Methodology: AMM UA FD. Project administration: AMM. Resources: AMM UA FD RAK. Software: AMM UA FD. Supervision: RAK AMM. Validation: AMM UA RAK. Visualization: AMM UA. Writing – original draft: AMM UA. Writing – review & editing: AMM UA FD MMA KB ES RAK.