About the Authors

Farrell Cahill

Contributed equally to this work with: Farrell Cahill, Mariam Shahidi

Affiliation Division of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada

Mariam Shahidi

Contributed equally to this work with: Farrell Cahill, Mariam Shahidi

Affiliation Division of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada

Jennifer Shea

Affiliation Division of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada

Danny Wadden

Affiliation Division of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada

Wayne Gulliver

Affiliation Division of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada

Edward Randell

Affiliation Discipline of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada

Sudesh Vasdev

Affiliation Division of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada

Guang Sun

gsun@mun.ca

Affiliation Division of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Assisted with insulin measurements: SV. Assisted with magnesium measurements: ER. Conceived and designed the experiments: FC MS JS WG GS. Performed the experiments: FC JS DW. Analyzed the data: FC MS JS DW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ER SV WG. Wrote the paper: FC MS.