About the Authors

Ronald Kusolo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Gerald N. Mutungi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Non-Communicable Diseases, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda

Mary Mbuliro

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Richard Kajjura

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Ronald Wesonga

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Silver K. Bahendeka

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

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine Uganda Martyrs’ University, Nkozi, Uganda, Department of Diabetes & Endocrinology, St. Francis Hospital, Kampala, Uganda

David Guwatudde

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dguwatudde@musph.ac.ug

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.