About the Authors

Chisa Shinsugi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations National Institute of Health and Nutrition, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Global Health Promotion, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Deepa Gunasekara

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

N. K. Gunawardena

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Wasanthi Subasinghe

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Miki Miyoshi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Aomori University of Health and Welfare, Aomori, Japan

Satoshi Kaneko

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Eco-epidemiology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Hidemi Takimoto

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

thidemi@nibiohn.go.jp

Affiliation National Institute of Health and Nutrition, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.