About the Authors

Rafael Gabriel

Contributed equally to this work with: Rafael Gabriel, Nisa Boukichou Abdelkader, Tania Acosta, Jaakko Tuomilehto

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

rgabriel@ceiis.org

Affiliations Departamento de Salud Internacional, Escuela Nacional de Sanidad, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, World Community for Prevention of Diabetes Foundation (WCPD), Madrid, Spain

Nisa Boukichou Abdelkader

Contributed equally to this work with: Rafael Gabriel, Nisa Boukichou Abdelkader, Tania Acosta, Jaakko Tuomilehto

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations EVIDEM CONSULTORES, Madrid, Spain, Asociación para la Investigación y Prevención de la Diabetes y Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (PREDICOR), Madrid, Spain

Tania Acosta

Contributed equally to this work with: Rafael Gabriel, Nisa Boukichou Abdelkader, Tania Acosta, Jaakko Tuomilehto

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations EVIDEM CONSULTORES, Madrid, Spain, Department of Public Health. Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia

Aleksandra Gilis-Januszewska

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Collegium Medicum, Krakow, Poland

Ricardo Gómez-Huelgas

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Fundación FIMABIS. Servicio Andaluz de Salud (SAS), Malaga, Spain

Konstantinos Makrilakis

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Zdravko Kamenov

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation University Multi-Profile Hospital for Active Treatment Alexandrovska EAD, Sofia, Bulgaria

Bernhard Paulweber

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Gemeinnuetzige Salzburger Landeskliniken Betriebsgesellschaft, (SALK) Salzburg, Austria

Ilhan Satman

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

Predrag Djordjevic

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation General Hospital Medical System Beograd—MSB Belgrade Serbia, Beograd, Serbia

Abdullah Alkandari

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Dasman Diabetes Research Institute, Kuwait, Kuwait

Asimina Mitrakou

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Alexandra Hospital, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Nebojsa Lalic

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

Stephen Colagiuri

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation The University of Sydney, Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise & Eating Disorders, Sydney, Australia

Jaana Lindström

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Jesús Egido

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Renal, Vascular and Diabetes Research Laboratory, Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain

Andrea Natali

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Universita di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

J. Carlos Pastor

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Instituto Universitario de Oftalmobiología Aplicada (IOBA), Universidad de Valladolid, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Valladolid, Spain

Yvonne Teuschl

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department for Clinical Neurosciences and Preventive Medicine, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria

Marcus Lind

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Västra Götalands Läns Landsting, Gothenburg, Sweden

Luis Silva

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation EVIDEM CONSULTORES, Madrid, Spain

Ruy López-Ridaura

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Salud Púbica, Cuernavaca, México

Jaakko Tuomilehto

Contributed equally to this work with: Rafael Gabriel, Nisa Boukichou Abdelkader, Tania Acosta, Jaakko Tuomilehto

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

Affiliations Departamento de Salud Internacional, Escuela Nacional de Sanidad, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, World Community for Prevention of Diabetes Foundation (WCPD), Madrid, Spain, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

On behalf of the e-PREDICE Consortium

Membership of the e-PREDICE Study Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

the authors received funding from Merck Serono GmbH and Boehringer Ingelheim. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.