About the Authors
- Balachandran Kumarendran
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Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.
Affiliations Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
- Michael W. O’Reilly
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Roles Methodology, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.
Affiliations Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Birmingham Health Partners, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Konstantinos N. Manolopoulos
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Roles Methodology, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.
Affiliations Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Birmingham Health Partners, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Konstantinos A. Toulis
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Krishna M. Gokhale
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Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Alice J. Sitch
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis
Affiliation Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Chandrika N. Wijeyaratne
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Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Arri Coomarasamy
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Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Birmingham Health Partners, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Wiebke Arlt
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Contributed equally to this work with: Wiebke Arlt, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar
Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: w.arlt@bham.ac.uk (WA); k.nirantharan@bham.ac.uk (KN)
Affiliations Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Birmingham Health Partners, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar
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Contributed equally to this work with: Wiebke Arlt, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft
* E-mail: w.arlt@bham.ac.uk (WA); k.nirantharan@bham.ac.uk (KN)
Affiliations Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Birmingham Health Partners, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: WA declares competing interests in relation to this paper, comprised of a scientific consultancy for Bayer AG and grant funding by the Wellcome Trust, a charitable foundation supporting research into human health. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.