About the Authors

Oliver Preyer

Affiliation Agency for Preventive and Social Medicine, Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria

Dorthe Johansen

Affiliation Surgery Research Unit, Lund University, Malmoe, Sweden

Jessica Holly

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Tanja Stocks

Affiliation Lund University Diabetes Centre, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease—Genetic Epidemiology Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, CRC, Malmoe, Sweden

Alfonso Pompella

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pathology, University of Pisa, Medical School, Pisa, Italy

Gabriele Nagel

Affiliations Agency for Preventive and Social Medicine, Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria, Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Hans Concin

Affiliation Agency for Preventive and Social Medicine, Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria

Hanno Ulmer

Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Health Economics, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Nicole Concin

nicole.concin@i-med.ac.at

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: OP HU NC. Wrote the paper: OP JH NC. Conception and design of the study: OP AP HC HU NC. Acquisition of data: DJ TS GN HC. Critically revised the manuscript: OP DJ JH TS AP GN HC HU NC.