About the Authors

Signe Abitz Winther

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

signe.abitz.winther@regionh.dk

Affiliations Steno Diabetes Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, Novo Nordisk A/S, Bagsvaerd, Denmark

Jens Christian Øllgaard

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Novo Nordisk A/S, Bagsvaerd, Denmark

Tine Willum Hansen

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Steno Diabetes Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Bernt Johan von Scholten

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Novo Nordisk A/S, Bagsvaerd, Denmark

Henrik Reinhard

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Steno Diabetes Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Tarunveer Singh Ahluwalia

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Steno Diabetes Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Zeneng Wang

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Peter Gæde

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Slagelse Hospital, Slagelse, Denmark, Univeristy of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Hans-Henrik Parving

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Stanley Hazen

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Oluf Pedersen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Copenhagen, Denmark

Peter Rossing

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Steno Diabetes Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, Univeristy of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: PR reports having given lectures for Astra Zeneca, Bayer, Novo Nordisk and Boehringer Ingelheim, and has served as a consultant for AbbVie, Astra Zeneca, Bayer, Eli Lilly, Boehringer Ingelheim, Astellas, Gilead, Mundipharma, Vifor, and Novo Nordisk, all fees given to Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen. SAW, TWH, BJvS, TSA and PR own stocks in Novo Nordisk A/S and TSA in Zealand Pharma A/S. Z.W. and S.L.H. are named as coinventors on pending and issued patents held by the Cleveland Clinic relating to cardiovascular diagnostics and therapeutics, and have the right to receive royalty payment for inventions or discoveries related to cardiovascular diagnostics or therapeutics from Cleveland Heart Lab, Quest Diagnostics and Proctor & Gamble. S.L.H. also reports having been paid as a consultant from Proctor & Gamble, and having received research funds from Proctor & Gamble and Roche. Novo Nordisk A/S provided support in the form of salaries for authors SAW, JO and BJvS. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors report no conflicts of interest.