About the Authors

Anita M. Hennige

Contributed equally to this work with: Anita M. Hennige, Harald Staiger

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Nephrology, Vascular Disease and Clinical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Harald Staiger

Contributed equally to this work with: Anita M. Hennige, Harald Staiger

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Nephrology, Vascular Disease and Clinical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Corinna Wicke

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Fausto Machicao

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Nephrology, Vascular Disease and Clinical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Andreas Fritsche

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Nephrology, Vascular Disease and Clinical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Hans-Ulrich Häring

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Nephrology, Vascular Disease and Clinical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Norbert Stefan

norbert.stefan@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Nephrology, Vascular Disease and Clinical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH HS FM NS AF AH CW. Performed the experiments: HS NS AH. Analyzed the data: HS NS AF AH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HS FM NS AH CW. Wrote the paper: HH HS NS AH.