About the Authors

Carole Debora Nounkeu

Contributed equally to this work with: Carole Debora Nounkeu, Yvan Dymas Metapi

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

Affiliation Regional Hospital Limbe, Limbe, Cameroon

Yvan Dymas Metapi

Contributed equally to this work with: Carole Debora Nounkeu, Yvan Dymas Metapi

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

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon

Florent Kamkumo Ouabo

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Senftenberg, Germany

Agnes Suzanne Toguem Kamguem

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Bertin Nono

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Delta Air Lines, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Nicholas Azza

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Independent Researcher, Kampala, Uganda

Patrice Leumeni

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW), Abuja, Nigeria

Georges Nguefack-Tsague

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

David Todem

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America

Jigna Morarji Dharod

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ JMD and DK also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, United States of America

Dieudonne Kuate

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

dieudonne.kuate@univ-dschang.org

‡ JMD and DK also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.