Delicia Shu Qin Ooi: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Sze Min Ong: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – original
draft
Ming Hui Eng: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – original
draft
Yiong Huak Chan: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Writing – review & editing
Yung Seng Lee: Role: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Adrian Fatt Hoe Low: Role: Data curationRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: Writing – review
& editing
Mark Yan-Yee Chan: Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Chew-Kiat Heng:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7309-9473
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: SupervisionRole:
Writing – review & editing
Johnson Rajasingh: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
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)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
13
August
2020
Publication date Collection: 2020
Volume: 15
Issue: 8
Electronic Location Identifier: e0237074
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of
Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
[2
]
Khoo Teck Puat-National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University
Health System, Singapore, Singapore
[3
]
Biostatistics Unit, Yong Loo Lin School Medicine, National University of Singapore,
Singapore, Singapore
[4
]
Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore,
Singapore, Singapore
[5
]
National University Heart Centre, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine Memphis, UNITED
STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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Publisher ID:
PONE-D-20-06837
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0237074
PMC ID: 7425853
PubMed ID: 32790694
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Funded by: Ministry of Education, Singapore
Award ID: MOE2015-T2-1-096
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7309-9473
Chew-Kiat Heng
This work was supported by the Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore [MOE Tier 2
grant: MOE2015-T2-1-096].
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