About the Authors

Deepak Kumar Gupta

Affiliations National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Diseases Foundation (N-DOC), SDA, New Delhi, India, Diabetes Foundation (India), SDA, New Delhi, India

Priyali Shah

Affiliations National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Diseases Foundation (N-DOC), SDA, New Delhi, India, Diabetes Foundation (India), SDA, New Delhi, India

Anoop Misra

anoopmisra@metabolicresearchindia.com

Affiliations National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Diseases Foundation (N-DOC), SDA, New Delhi, India, Diabetes Foundation (India), SDA, New Delhi, India, Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Fortis Flt. Lt. Rajan Dhall Hospital, New Delhi, India

Swati Bharadwaj

Affiliations National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Diseases Foundation (N-DOC), SDA, New Delhi, India, Diabetes Foundation (India), SDA, New Delhi, India

Seema Gulati

Affiliations National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Diseases Foundation (N-DOC), SDA, New Delhi, India, Diabetes Foundation (India), SDA, New Delhi, India

Nidhi Gupta

Affiliations National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Diseases Foundation (N-DOC), SDA, New Delhi, India, Diabetes Foundation (India), SDA, New Delhi, India, Department of Pediatrics, Children Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Rekha Sharma

Affiliations National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Diseases Foundation (N-DOC), SDA, New Delhi, India, Diabetes Foundation (India), SDA, New Delhi, India

Ravindra M. Pandey

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Kashish Goel

Affiliations National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Diseases Foundation (N-DOC), SDA, New Delhi, India, Diabetes Foundation (India), SDA, New Delhi, India, Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM PS RMP. Performed the experiments: PS SB SG RS. Analyzed the data: DKG PS KG RMP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DKG PS KG SB SG RS RMP. Wrote the paper: AM DKG PS KG NG. Performed data collection: PS SB SG RS. Interpreted data: DKG PS KG RMP.