Sweis, Nadia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-6634
Jorgensen, Julianne https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9852-0837
Zeng, Julia
Choo-Kang, Candice https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9150-1131
Zapater, Joseph
Bedu-Addo, Kweku
Forrester, Terrence https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7976-8669
Bovet, Pascal
Lambert, Estelle V.
Riesen, Walter
Korte, Wolfgang
Dai, Yang
Dugas, Lara R. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0692-8585
Layden, Brian T.
Luke, Amy https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8484-9439
Article History
Received: 25 July 2023
Revised: 29 July 2024
Accepted: 10 October 2024
First Online: 17 October 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Informed consent was obtained from all participants. The METS protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Loyola University Chicago (Maywood, IL, US), the Board for Ethics and Clinical Research of the University of Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland), the National Research Ethics Committee of Seychelles, the Ethics Committee of the University of the West Indies (Kingston, Jamaica), the Health Sciences Faculty Research Ethics Committee of the University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa), and the Committee on Human Research Publication and Ethics of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Kumasi, Ghana). All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.