About the Authors

Preeti H. Negandhi

Contributed equally to this work with: Preeti H. Negandhi, Nazim Ghouri

Affiliation Indian Institute of Public Health, Public Health Foundation of India, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Nazim Ghouri

Contributed equally to this work with: Preeti H. Negandhi, Nazim Ghouri

nazim.ghouri@glasgow.ac.uk

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Helen M. Colhoun

Affiliation Biomedical Research Institute, Mackenzie Building, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

Colin M. Fischbacher

Affiliation Information Services Division, NHS National Services Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Robert S. Lindsay

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

John A. McKnight

Affiliation Metabolic Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

John Petrie

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Sam Philip

Affiliation Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

Naveed Sattar

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Sarah H. Wild

Affiliation Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

on behalf of the Scottish Diabetes Research Network Epidemiology Group

Competing Interests

HMC received monies from Pfizer for attending symposia, a speaker's bureau, as a member of staff and for consultancy. HMC has received research funds from Pfizer, Roche, Eli-Lilly, Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) and Astra Zeneca. HMC has shares in Roche. JAM is the PI for drug studies for Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly and BI (contracts relating to this work are through JAM's NHS employer R&D department). JAM received monies 2 years ago from BI for organising the ethics application for their study and attending the meeting relating to this. JAM has received support to attend meetings from the above companies as well as from Takeda. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SHW PHN. Performed the experiments: SHW PHN. Analyzed the data: PHN SHW. Wrote the paper: PHN NG NS SHW. Revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content: PHN NG NS SHW HMC CMF RSL JAM JP SP.