About the Authors

Bernd Kowall

bernd.kowall@ddz.uni-duesseldorf.de

Affiliation Institute of Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Nina Ebert

Affiliation Institute of Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Cornelia Then

Affiliation Diabetes Zentrum, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV - Campus Innenstadt, Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany

Joachim Thiery

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Wolfgang Koenig

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine II – Cardiology, University of Ulm, Medical Center, Ulm, Germany

Christa Meisinger

Affiliation Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Epidemiology II, Neuherberg, Germany

Wolfgang Rathmann

Affiliation Institute of Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Jochen Seissler

Affiliations Diabetes Zentrum, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV - Campus Innenstadt, Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group Diabetes, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München, München, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: BK NE. Wrote the paper: BK. Data collection: JT WK CM WR JS. Review of manuscript: BK NE CT JT WK CM WR JS.