About the Authors

Andreas Oberbach

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Leipzig University Medical Center, IFB Adiposity Diseases, Leipzig, Germany

Nadine Schlichting

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Leipzig University Medical Center, IFB Adiposity Diseases, Leipzig, Germany

Marco Heinrich

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Urology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Holger Till

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Leipzig University Medical Center, IFB Adiposity Diseases, Leipzig, Germany

Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Jochen Neuhaus

jochen.neuhaus@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AO JN NS. Performed the experiments: NS MH. Analyzed the data: AO JN NS MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HT JUS. Wrote the paper: AO JN NS MH.