About the Authors

Balachandran Kumarendran

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

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

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

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Krishna M. Gokhale

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Alice J. Sitch

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Chandrika N. Wijeyaratne

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Arri Coomarasamy

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

Contributed equally to this work with: Wiebke Arlt, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Contributed equally to this work with: Wiebke Arlt, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

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.