Davies, Jessica C.
Choo-Kang, Candice
Soepnel, Larske
Geffen, Hayli
Africa, Chad
Mtintsilana, Asanda
Bovet, Pascal
Viswanathan, Bharathi
Bedu-Addo, Kweku
Plange-Rhule, Jacob
Boateng, Prince Oti
Apusiga, Kingsley
Dei, Oscar Akunor
Forrester, Terrence E.
Williams, Marie
Lambert, Estelle V.
Rae, Dale E.
Sinyanya, Nandipha
Layden, Brian T.
Gilbert, Jack A.
Ecklu-Mensah, Gertrude
Joyce, Cara
Luke, Amy
Dugas, Lara R.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (1R01DK80763, R01DK111848, R01HL148271)
Article History
Received: 6 September 2024
Accepted: 2 January 2025
First Online: 25 February 2025
Declarations
:
: All participants consented to their information being used for publication.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The protocols for METS and METS-Microbiome were approved by the Institutional Review Board of Loyola University Chicago, IL, US; the Committee on Human Research Publication and Ethics of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana; the Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of Cape Town, South Africa; the Board for Ethics and Clinical Research of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland; and the Ethics Committee of the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. All participants provided written informed consent10,34,35. The protocol for the current analysis was also approved by the University of Cape Town’s Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC ref: 632/2022).