About the Authors

Yvonne Winhofer

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Florian W. Kiefer

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Ammon Handisurya

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Andrea Tura

Affiliation Metabolic Unit, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Research Council, Padova, Italy

Katharina Klein

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Barbara Schneider

Affiliation CeMSIIS, Section of Medical Statistics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Rodrig Marculescu

Affiliation Clinical Institute for Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, General Hospital of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Oswald F. Wagner

Affiliation Clinical Institute for Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, General Hospital of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Giovanni Pacini

Affiliation Metabolic Unit, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Research Council, Padova, Italy

Anton Luger

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Thomas M. Stulnig

Affiliations Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Christian Doppler-Laboratory for Cardio-Metabolic Immunotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Alexandra Kautzky-Willer

alexandra.kautzky-willer@meduniwien.ac.at

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

Al authors declare no conflict of interest related to this study.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments, and analyzed the data: YW FK AT BS RM OW GP AL TS AK-W. Performed the experiments: YW AH FK KK AK-W RM OW. Analyzed the data: YW FK AT BS AK-W. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FK TS OW RM. Wrote the paper: YW FK AK-W.