About the Authors

Mahesh Kumar Khanal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

drmkkhanal@gmail.com

Affiliation Provincial Ayurveda Hospital, Ministry of Health and Population, Lumbini Province, Nepal

Pratiksha Bhandari

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rapti Life Care Hospital Pvt. Lt. Tulsipur, Dang, Nepal

Raja Ram Dhungana

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

Pratik Bhandari

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of SEBE, Deakin University, Warun Ponds, VIC, Australia

Lal B. Rawal

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, College of Science and Sustainability, Central Queensland University, Sydney Campus, Australia, Physical Activity Research Group, Appleton Institute, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia, Translational Health Research Institute (THRI), Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia

Yadav Gurung

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Child and Youth Health Research Center, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

K. N. Paudel

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

Affiliation Province Hospital, Ministry of Social Development, Karnali Province, Surkhet, Nepal

Amit Singh

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Province Hospital, Ministry of Social Development, Karnali Province, Surkhet, Nepal

Surya Devkota

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Manmohan Cardiothoracic Vascular and Transplant Centre, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal

Barbora de Courten

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.