About the Authors

Maria Pedersen

mariapedersen@dadlnet.dk

Affiliation The Centre of Inflammation and Metabolism at Department of Infectious Disease, Rigshospitalet, The Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Karin Kaereby Pedersen

Affiliation The Centre of Inflammation and Metabolism at Department of Infectious Disease, Rigshospitalet, The Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Helle Bruunsgaard

Affiliations The Centre of Inflammation and Metabolism at Department of Infectious Disease, Rigshospitalet, The Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Clinical Immunology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Karen Suarez Krabbe

Affiliation The Centre of Inflammation and Metabolism at Department of Infectious Disease, Rigshospitalet, The Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Carsten Thomsen

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Kristine Færch

Affiliation Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark

Bente Klarlund Pedersen

Affiliation The Centre of Inflammation and Metabolism at Department of Infectious Disease, Rigshospitalet, The Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Erik Lykke Mortensen

Affiliation Institute of Public Health and Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MP KK HB CT BKP ELM. Performed the experiments: MP KP. Analyzed the data: MP HB KF BKP ELM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MP CT BKP ELM. Wrote the paper: MP KP KK KF CT HB BKP ELM.