About the Authors

Janine Makaronidis

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

Affiliations UCL Centre for Obesity Research, Division of Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Bariatric Centre for Weight Management and Metabolic Surgery, University College London Hospital, London, United Kingdom, National Institute of Health Research, UCLH Biomedical Research Centre, London, United Kingdom

Jessica Mok

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations UCL Centre for Obesity Research, Division of Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Bariatric Centre for Weight Management and Metabolic Surgery, University College London Hospital, London, United Kingdom, National Institute of Health Research, UCLH Biomedical Research Centre, London, United Kingdom

Nyaladzi Balogun

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations UCL Centre for Obesity Research, Division of Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Bariatric Centre for Weight Management and Metabolic Surgery, University College London Hospital, London, United Kingdom, National Institute of Health Research, UCLH Biomedical Research Centre, London, United Kingdom

Cormac G. Magee

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations UCL Centre for Obesity Research, Division of Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Bariatric Centre for Weight Management and Metabolic Surgery, University College London Hospital, London, United Kingdom, National Institute of Health Research, UCLH Biomedical Research Centre, London, United Kingdom

Rumana Z. Omar

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

Affiliation Department of Statistical Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Alisia Carnemolla

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

Affiliations UCL Centre for Obesity Research, Division of Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom, National Institute of Health Research, UCLH Biomedical Research Centre, London, United Kingdom

Rachel L. Batterham

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

r.batterham@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliations UCL Centre for Obesity Research, Division of Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Bariatric Centre for Weight Management and Metabolic Surgery, University College London Hospital, London, United Kingdom, National Institute of Health Research, UCLH Biomedical Research Centre, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.