About the Authors

Cornelia Then

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

cornelia.then@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliations Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Klinikum der Universität München, LMU München, Munich, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group Diabetes, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany

Barbara Thorand

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München–German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany

Holger L. Then

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Freie Waldorfschule Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Christa Meisinger

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Independent Research Group Clinical Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München–German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany, Chair of Epidemiology at UNIKAT Augsburg, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Margit Heier

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München–German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany, KORA Study Centre, University Hospital Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Annette Peters

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München–German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany, DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany

Wolfgang Koenig

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Wolfgang Rathmann

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Institute at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Institute of Biometrics and Epidemiology, Düsseldorf, Germany

Martin Bidlingmaier

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Klinikum der Universität München, LMU München, Munich, Germany

Andreas Lechner

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Klinikum der Universität München, LMU München, Munich, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group Diabetes, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany

Martin Reincke

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Klinikum der Universität München, LMU München, Munich, Germany

Jürgen E. Scherberich

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Klinikum München-Harlaching, Teaching Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

Jochen Seissler

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Klinikum der Universität München, LMU München, Munich, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group Diabetes, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.