About the Authors

Marie Alicke

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité – Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Justice K. Boakye-Appiah

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Inusah Abdul-Jalil

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Andrea Henze

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology of Nutrition, Institute of Nutrition Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Markus van der Giet

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department IV – Nephrology, Charité – Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Matthias B. Schulze

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Florian J. Schweigert

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology of Nutrition, Institute of Nutrition Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Frank P. Mockenhaupt

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité – Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

George Bedu-Addo

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Ina Danquah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

ina.danquah@dife.de

Affiliations Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany, Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité –Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.