About the Authors

Yogini V. Chudasama

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

yc244@leicester.ac.uk

Affiliations Diabetes Research Centre, Leicester General Hospital, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration—East Midlands (ARC-EM) Leicester Diabetes Centre, Leicester, United Kingdom

Kamlesh Khunti

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Diabetes Research Centre, Leicester General Hospital, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration—East Midlands (ARC-EM) Leicester Diabetes Centre, Leicester, United Kingdom

Clare L. Gillies

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diabetes Research Centre, Leicester General Hospital, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Nafeesa N. Dhalwani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diabetes Research Centre, Leicester General Hospital, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Melanie J. Davies

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Diabetes Research Centre, Leicester General Hospital, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Leicester Diabetes Centre, Leicester, United Kingdom

Thomas Yates

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Diabetes Research Centre, Leicester General Hospital, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Leicester Diabetes Centre, Leicester, United Kingdom

Francesco Zaccardi

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diabetes Research Centre, Leicester General Hospital, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests. FZ is funded with an unrestricted educational grant from the NIHR CLAHRC East Midlands to the University of Leicester. KK has acted as a consultant and speaker for Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi-Aventis, Lilly, Servier, and Merck Sharp & Dohme. He has received grants in support of investigator and investigator-initiated trials from Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi-Aventis, Lilly, Pfizer, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Merck Sharp & Dohme. KK has received funds for research and honoraria for speaking at meetings and has served on advisory boards for Lilly, Sanofi-Aventis, Merck Sharp & Dohme, and Novo Nordisk. MJD has acted as consultant, advisory board member, and speaker for Novo Nordisk, Sanofi-Aventis, Lilly, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Boehringer Ingelheim, AstraZeneca, and Janssen; an advisory board member for Servier and Gilead Sciences Ltd; and as a speaker for NAPP, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, and Takeda Pharmaceuticals International Inc. TY has received funding from the Leicester NIHR Leicester BRC. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.