About the Authors

Jana Breitfeld

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Anke Tönjes

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, IFB Adiposity Diseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Marie-Therese Gast

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Dorit Schleinitz

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Matthias Blüher

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Michael Stumvoll

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Peter Kovacs

peter.kovacs@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Yvonne Böttcher

Affiliation IFB Adiposity Diseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Edited manuscript: AT DS MB MS YB. Conceived and designed the experiments: PK YB. Performed the experiments: JB. Analyzed the data: JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AT MTG MS. Wrote the paper: JB PK.