About the Authors
- Dimitris Varvaki Rados
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* E-mail: dvarvaki@gmail.com
Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre/Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Lana Catani Pinto
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Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre/Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Luciana Reck Remonti
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Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre/Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Cristiane Bauermann Leitão
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Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre/Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Jorge Luiz Gross
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Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre/Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Competing Interests
JLG reports grants from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, during the conduct of the study; grants and other from Eli Lilly, grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb, grants and other from Boehringer Ingelheim, grants from GlaxoSmithKline, grants and other from Novo Nordisk, grants from Janssen, outside the submitted work; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work are reported. DVR, LCP, LRR and CBL have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DVR LCP LRR CBL JLG. Analyzed the data: DVR LCP LRR CBL JLG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DVR LCP JLG. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: DVR CBL JLG. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: DVR LCP LRR CBL JLG. Agree with the manuscript’s results and conclusions: DVR LCP LRR CBL JLG. Performed reference selection: DVR LCP. Performed data acquisition: DVR LCP. All authors have read, and confirm that they meet, ICMJE criteria for authorship.