About the Authors

Tina Landsvig Berentzen

tb@ipm.regionh.dk

Affiliation Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Lars Ängquist

Affiliation Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Anna Kotronen

Affiliations Division of Diabetes, Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Minerva Medical Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland

Ronald Borra

Affiliations Turku PET Centre, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, Departments of Radiology, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

Hannele Yki-Järvinen

Affiliation Division of Diabetes, Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Patricia Iozzo

Affiliations Turku PET Centre, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy

Riitta Parkkola

Affiliations Turku PET Centre, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, Departments of Radiology, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

Pirjo Nuutila

Affiliations Turku PET Centre, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, Departments of Medicine, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

Robert Ross

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

David B. Allison

Affiliation Section on Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Steven B. Heymsfield

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

Kim Overvad

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Cardiology, Center for Cardiovascular Research, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Thorkild I. A. Sørensen

Affiliation Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Marianne Uhre Jakobsen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TLB KO TIAS MUJ. Performed the experiments: AK RB HYJ PI RP PN RR DBA SBH. Analyzed the data: TLB LA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TLB LA AK RB HYJ PI RP PN RR DBA SBH KO TIAS MUJ. Wrote the paper: TLB. Assisted the interpretation and discussion of the results and made a critical revision of the manuscript for its intellectual content: TLB LA AK RB HYJ PI RP PN RR DBA SBH KO TIAS MUJ.