About the Authors

Clare Stradling

clare.stradling@heartofengland.nhs.uk (CS); S.Taheri@bham.ac.uk (ST)

Affiliations HIV Metabolic Clinic, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Birmingham and Black Country NIHR CLAHRC, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Yen-Fu Chen

Affiliation Birmingham and Black Country NIHR CLAHRC, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Tracy Russell

Affiliation Dietetic Department, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Martin Connock

Affiliation Warwick Evidence, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

G. Neil Thomas

Affiliation School of Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Shahrad Taheri

clare.stradling@heartofengland.nhs.uk (CS); S.Taheri@bham.ac.uk (ST)

Affiliations HIV Metabolic Clinic, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Birmingham and Black Country NIHR CLAHRC, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS. Performed the experiments: CS TR. Analyzed the data: CS MC. Wrote the paper: CS ST. Advised on statistical analysis: YFC. Advised on data interpretation: YFC MC. Contributed to the revision of the report: GT ST YFC.