About the Authors

Morten Charles

mc@ph.au.dk

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Section of General Practice, Aarhus University, Denmark

Mette V. Skriver

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Denmark

Simon J. Griffin

Affiliations Primary Care Unit, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Rebecca K. Simmons

Affiliations Department of Public Health, Section of General Practice, Aarhus University, Denmark, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Danish Diabetes Academy, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 6B, Aarhus C, Denmark

Daniel R. Witte

Affiliations Department of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Denmark, Danish Diabetes Academy, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

Else-Marie Dalsgaard

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Section of General Practice, Aarhus University, Denmark

Torsten Lauritzen

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Section of General Practice, Aarhus University, Denmark

Annelli Sandbæk

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Section of General Practice, Aarhus University, Denmark

Competing Interests

MC is supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. DRW and RKS are supported by the Danish Diabetes Academy, which is funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. DRW reports receiving lecture fees from Novo Nordisk A/S and Steno Diabetes Center. DRW and TL hold shares in Novo Nordisk A/S. TL reports receiving a fee for attending an international board meeting for Astra Zeneca on early detection and treatment of diabetes in 2015. AS reports receiving lecture fees for providing continuing medical education to GPs. SJG’s research programme is supported by MRC Epidemiology Unit core funding (MC_UU_12015/4). SJG is an NIHR Senior Investigator and member of the NIHR School for Primary Care Research. SJG receives an honorarium and reimbursement of travel expenses from Eli Lilly associated with membership of an independent data monitoring committee for a randomised trial of a medication to lower glucose. SJG received an honorarium from Janssen for speaking at an educational meeting in 2015. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MC SJG RKS AS. Data curation: MC MVS EMD. Formal analysis: MC MVS RKS. Funding acquisition: SJG TL AS. Investigation: MC MVS SJG RKS DRW EMD TL AS. Methodology: MC MVS SJG RKS TL AS. Project administration: MC EMD TL AS. Resources: MC MVS DRW TL AS. Supervision: SJG DRW TL AS. Validation: MC MVS EMD. Writing – original draft: MC RKS. Writing – review & editing: MC MVS SJG RKS DRW EMD TL AS.