About the Authors
- Rudolf Hoermann
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department for Nuclear Medicine, Klinikum Lüdenscheid, Paulmannshöherstr, Lüdenscheid, Germany
- John Edward Maurice Midgley
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation North Lakes Clinical, 20 Wheatley Avenue, Ilkley, United Kingdom
- Rolf Larisch
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department for Nuclear Medicine, Klinikum Lüdenscheid, Paulmannshöherstr, Lüdenscheid, Germany
- Johannes Wolfgang Christian Dietrich
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: johannes.dietrich@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Affiliations Medical Department I, Endocrinology and Diabetology, Bergmannsheil University Hospitals, Ruhr University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Ruhr Center for Rare Diseases (CeSER), Ruhr University of Bochum, Alexandrinenstr. 5, Bochum, Germany, Ruhr Center for Rare Diseases (CeSER), Witten/Herdecke University, Alexandrinenstr. 5, Bochum, Germany
Competing Interests
JWD received funding and personal fees by Sanofi-Henning, Hexal AG, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer, and is co-owner of the intellectual property rights for the patent “System and Method for Deriving Parameters for Homeostatic Feedback Control of an Individual” (Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, Biomedical Sciences Institutes, Application Number 201208940-5, WIPO number WO/2014/088516). North Lakes Clinical has been founded by JEM as a private consultancy institution. It didn’t play a role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparations of the manuscript, nor did it provide any financial support. All other authors declare that there is no conflict of interest that could be perceived as prejudicing the impartiality of the research reported.