About the Authors

Nay M. Htun

Affiliations Atherothrombosis and Vascular Biology, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Dianna J. Magliano

Affiliation Clinical Diabetes and Epidemiology, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Zhen-Yu Zhang

Affiliation Studies Coordinating Centre, Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, KU Leuven Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Jasmine Lyons

Affiliation Clinical Diabetes and Epidemiology, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Thibault Petit

Affiliation Studies Coordinating Centre, Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, KU Leuven Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Esther Nkuipou-Kenfack

Affiliation Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH, Hanover, Germany

Adela Ramirez-Torres

Affiliations Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH, Hanover, Germany, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Constantin von zur Muhlen

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Centre Freiburg, Germany

David Maahs

Affiliations Department of Paediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Barbara Davis Centre for Diabetes, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Joost P. Schanstra

Affiliations Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U1048, Institut of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease, Toulouse, France, Université Toulouse III Paul-Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Claudia Pontillo

Affiliation Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH, Hanover, Germany

Martin Pejchinovski

Affiliation Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH, Hanover, Germany

Janet K. Snell-Bergeon

Affiliation Barbara Davis Centre for Diabetes, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Christian Delles

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Harald Mischak

Affiliations Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH, Hanover, Germany, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Jan A. Staessen

Affiliations Studies Coordinating Centre, Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, KU Leuven Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, R&D VitaK Group, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands

Jonathan E. Shaw

Affiliation Clinical Diabetes and Epidemiology, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Thomas Koeck

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Koeck, Karlheinz Peter

Affiliation Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH, Hanover, Germany

Karlheinz Peter

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Koeck, Karlheinz Peter

Karlheinz.Peter@bakeridi.edu.au

Affiliations Atherothrombosis and Vascular Biology, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared the following potential conflict of interest: H. Mischak is the founder and coowner of Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH, who developed the CE-MS technology for clinical application. E. Nkuipou-Kenfack, A. Ramirez-Torres, C. Pontillo, M. Pejchinovski and T. Koeck are employees of Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NMH DJM TK KP. Data curation: NMH TK DJM. Formal analysis: NMH DJM CP ENK ART MP TK KP. Funding acquisition: HM KP JAS JPS. Investigation: NMH DJM CP ENK ZYZ JL TK TP CVZM DM JPS JKSB CD HM JAS JES KP. Methodology: NMH DJM TK HM KP. Project administration: HM KP. Resources: NMH JAS CD HM KP. Software: NMH DJM ENK TK HM KP. Supervision: HM KP. Validation: NMH DJM HM TK KP. Visualization: NMH DJM TK KP. Writing – original draft: NMH DJM CP ENK ZYZ JL TK TP CVZM DM JPS JKSB CD HM JAS JES KP. Writing – review & editing: NMH DJM ENK HM JES KP MP.