About the Authors

Arshad M. Channanath

Affiliation Dasman Diabetes Institute, Dasman, Kuwait

Naser Elkum

Affiliation Dasman Diabetes Institute, Dasman, Kuwait

Dalia Al-Abdulrazzaq

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

Jaakko Tuomilehto

Affiliation Dasman Diabetes Institute, Dasman, Kuwait

Azza Shaltout

Affiliation Dasman Diabetes Institute, Dasman, Kuwait

Thangavel Alphonse Thanaraj

Alphonse.Thangavel@dasmaninstitute.org

Affiliation Dasman Diabetes Institute, Dasman, Kuwait

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TAT AS. Data curation: NE DA. Formal analysis: AMC TAT. Investigation: TAT AS JT. Methodology: AMC TAT. Project administration: TAT AS NE JT. Resources: NE DA. Software: AMC. Supervision: TAT. Validation: TAT. Visualization: TAT. Writing – original draft: AMC TAT. Writing – review & editing: JT AS TAT.