About the Authors
- Alexander Bendas
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Bendas, Ulrike Rothe
Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Ulrike Rothe
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Bendas, Ulrike Rothe
* E-mail: ulrike.rothe@tu-dresden.de
Affiliation Health Sciences/Public Health, Faculty of Medicine “Carl Gustav Carus”, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Wieland Kiess
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Affiliation Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Center for Pediatric Research, Department of Women and Child Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Thomas Michael Kapellen
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Affiliation Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Center for Pediatric Research, Department of Women and Child Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Thoralf Stange
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Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics and Biometry, Faculty of Medicine “Carl Gustav Carus”, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Ulf Manuwald
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Affiliation Health Sciences/Public Health, Faculty of Medicine “Carl Gustav Carus”, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Eckhard Salzsieder
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Affiliation Institute of Diabetes “Gerhardt Katsch” Karlsburg, Karlsburg, Germany
- Reinhard Walter Holl
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Affiliation Institute for Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
- Olaf Schoffer
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Affiliation Department of Tumorepidemiology, Faculty of Medicine “Carl Gustav Carus”, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Anna Stahl-Pehe
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Affiliation Institute for Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Centre, Leibniz Institute for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Guido Giani
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Affiliation Institute for Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Centre, Leibniz Institute for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Stefan Ehehalt
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Affiliation Public Health Department of Stuttgart, Department of Pediatrics, Dental Health Care, Health Promotion and Social Services, Stuttgart, Germany
- Andreas Neu
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work, senior authorship.
Affiliation University Children’s Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Joachim Rosenbauer
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work, senior authorship.
Affiliation Institute for Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Centre, Leibniz Institute for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: UR WK AN GG AB JR. Performed the experiments: WK TK AN SE JR RH. Analyzed the data: JR GG TS AB SE. Wrote the paper: AB JR. Revised the article critically for important intellectual content: UR UM WK AN TK TS ES RH OS AS SE. Interpretation of data as well as final approval of the version to be published: AB UR WK TK TS UM ES RWH OS AS-P GG SE AN JR.