About the Authors

Lua Wilkinson

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Lua.wilkinson@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Novo Nordisk, Plainsboro, New Jersey, United States of America

Nengjun Yi

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Tapan Mehta

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Services Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Suzanne Judd

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

W. Timothy Garvey

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

Affiliations Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

There has been no financial support to any author for this manuscript, and the opinions expressed are entirely those of the authors. L.W. is an employee of Novo Nordisk Inc. W.T.G has served on ad hoc advisory boards for Sanofi, Novo Nordisk, Gilead, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, BOYDSense, and the American Medical Group Association, and he has conducted research sponsored by the University of Alabama at Birmingham funded by Sanofi, Merck/Pfizer, and Novo Nordisk.