About the Authors
- Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas
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* E-mail: eg318@cam.ac.uk
Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Zheng Ye
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Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Andrew J. Cooper
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Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Stephen J. Sharp
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Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Robert Luben
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Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Mary L. Biggs
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Liang-Kung Chen
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Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
- Kuppan Gokulakrishnan
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Affiliation Madras Diabetes Research Foundation and Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, Chennai, India
- Markolf Hanefeld
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Affiliation Centre for Clinical Study, Gesellschaft für Wissens- und Technologietransfer, Technisches Universität Dresden GmBH, Dresden, Germany
- Erik Ingelsson
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Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Wen-An Lai
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Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Kuang Tien General Hospital, Taichung City, Taiwan
- Shih-Yi Lin
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Affiliation Division of Endrocrinology and Metabolism, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung City, Taiwan
- Lars Lind
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Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
- Vitool Lohsoonthorn
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Affiliation Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Viswanathan Mohan
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Affiliation Madras Diabetes Research Foundation and Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, Chennai, India
- Antonio Muscari
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Aging and Nephrological Diseases, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Goran Nilsson
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Affiliation Centre for Clinical Research, Uppsala University, Vasteras, Sweden
- John Ohrvik
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Jiang Chao Qiang
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Affiliation Guangzhou No. 12 Hospital, Guangzhou, China
- Nancy Swords Jenny
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America
- Koji Tamakoshi
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Affiliation Department of Nursing, Nagoya University School of Health Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
- Theodora Temelkova-Kurktschiev
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Affiliations Centre for Clinical Study, Gesellschaft für Wissens- und Technologietransfer, Technisches Universität Dresden GmBH, Dresden, Germany, Medicobiological Unit, International Scientific Institute, National Sports Academy and “Robert Koch” German Medical Center, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Ya-Yu Wang
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Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Kuang Tien General Hospital, Taichung City, Taiwan
- Chittaranjan Sakerlal Yajnik
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Affiliation King Edward Memorial Hospital, Pune, India
- Marco Zoli
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Aging and Nephrological Diseases, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Kay-Tee Khaw
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Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Nita G. Forouhi
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Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Nicholas J. Wareham
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Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Claudia Langenberg
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Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Analyzed the data: SJS EI. Conceived study, performed data collection and analysis, wrote the manuscript: EG-K. Analyzed EPIC Norfolk data and performed the meta-analysis: EG-K. Performed data collection for the meta-analysis, contributed to writing the final manuscript: ZY. Contributed to the last version of the manuscript: AJC. Commented on several versions of the manuscript and provided statistical expertise: SJS. Cohort PI for EPIC Norfolk, provided data from EPIC Norfolk for analysis: RL. Data ownership and data analysis for respective cohort: MLB L-KC JO. Data ownership for respective cohort: KG EI. Cohort PI and data ownership for respective cohort: MH LL VM GN JCQ KT CSY MZ. Cohort PI for respective cohort: W-AL. Data analysis for respective cohort: S-YL NSJ Y-YW. Cohort PI, data ownership and data analysis for respective cohort: VL AM TT-K. Cohort PI for EPIC-Norfolk: K-TK. Contributed to study design, commented on final versions of paper: NGF. Contributed to study design, suggested analysis, commented on several versions of paper, made significant contributions to sections of paper: NJW. EPIC-Norfolk PI with data ownership: NJW. Contributed to study design, suggested analysis, commented on all versions of paper, made significant contributions to sections of paper: CL.