About the Authors

Muhammad Aziz Rahman

aziz.rahman@adelaide.edu.au

Affiliation Discipline of Public Health, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Nicola Spurrier

Affiliation Discipline of Public Health, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Mohammad Afzal Mahmood

Affiliation Discipline of Public Health, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Mahmudur Rahman

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sohel Reza Choudhury

Affiliation National Heart Foundation Hospital & Research Institute (NHFH&RI), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Stephen Leeder

Affiliation The Menzies Centre for Health Policy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAR NS MAM MR SRC SL. Performed the experiments: MAR MR SRC. Analyzed the data: MAR NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS MAM MR. Wrote the paper: MAR NS MAM SL.