Abdulmohsin A. Almehizia: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing
– review & editing
Reema K. AlEssa: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Khalid M. Alwusaidi: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: Writing – review & editing
Khalid A. Alzamil:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8610-1480
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: Writing – review & editing
Modhi AlJumah: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: Writing – review & editing
Sarah Aljohani: Role: Data curationRole: MethodologyRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Adel F. Almutairi: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing
– original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Mahmoud Salam:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4262-4201
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Konstantinos Kostikas: 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):
26
June
2019
Publication date Collection: 2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 6
Electronic Location Identifier: e0217182
Affiliations
[1
]
King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Science, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
[2
]
King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
[3
]
Imam Saud bin Abdulaziz University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
[4
]
Alfarabi University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, SWITZERLAND
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
[¤]
Current address: Science and Technology Unit, King Abdullah International Medical
Research Center, King Saud University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical
City, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
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PONE-D-19-06510
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217182
PMC ID: 6594581
PubMed ID: 31242201
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