About the Authors

Aleksandra Gilis-Januszewska

Contributed equally to this work with: Aleksandra Gilis-Januszewska, Noël C. Barengo, Jaana Lindström, Ewa Wójtowicz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

myjanusz@cyfronet.pl

Affiliation Chair and Department of Endocrinology, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Krakow, Poland

Noël C. Barengo

Contributed equally to this work with: Aleksandra Gilis-Januszewska, Noël C. Barengo, Jaana Lindström, Ewa Wójtowicz

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical and Population Health Science Research, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, United States of America

Jaana Lindström

Contributed equally to this work with: Aleksandra Gilis-Januszewska, Noël C. Barengo, Jaana Lindström, Ewa Wójtowicz

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chronic Disease Prevention Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland

Ewa Wójtowicz

Contributed equally to this work with: Aleksandra Gilis-Januszewska, Noël C. Barengo, Jaana Lindström, Ewa Wójtowicz

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chair and Department of Endocrinology, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Krakow, Poland

Tania Acosta

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia

Jaakko Tuomilehto

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Centre for Vascular Prevention, Danube-University Krems, Krems, Austria, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Diabetes Research Group, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Dasman Diabetes Institute, Dasman, Kuwait

Peter E. H. Schwarz

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department for Prevention & Care of Diabetes, Medical Clinic Unit III, University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus at Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden of the Helmholtz Center Munich at University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany

Beata Piwońska-Solska

Roles Investigation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Chair and Department of Endocrinology, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Krakow, Poland

Zbigniew Szybiński

Roles Resources

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Chair and Department of Endocrinology, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Krakow, Poland

Adam Windak

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Chair of Medicine and Gerontology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland

Alicja Hubalewska-Dydejczyk

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Chair and Department of Endocrinology, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Krakow, Poland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.