About the Authors

Zara Kayani

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

zk74@leicester.ac.uk

Affiliation Diabetes Research Centre, Leicester General Hospital, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Andrew Willis

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

Affiliation HRB Clinical Research Facility & School of Public Health, University College Cork, Ireland

Safoora Gharibzadeh

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leicester Real World Evidence Unit, Diabetes Research Centre, Leicester General Hospital, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Kamlesh Khunti

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Diabetes Research Centre, Leicester General Hospital, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, Leicester Real World Evidence Unit, Diabetes Research Centre, Leicester General Hospital, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Ash Routen

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

Affiliation Diabetes Research Centre, Leicester General Hospital, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

KK has acted as a consultant, speaker or received grants for investigator-initiated studies for Abbott, Astra Zeneca, Bayer, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi-Aventis, Servier, Lilly and Merck Sharp & Dohme, Boehringer Ingelheim, Oramed Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Roche, Daiichi-Sankyo, Applied Therapeutics, Embecta and Nestle Health Science. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. To reiterate, Professor Khunti is not an employee of the organisations mentioned above. He has acted as a consultant for them. No funding/input was received from the organisations for this study.