About the Authors

Bianca K. Itariu

Affiliations Clinical Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Christian Doppler Laboratory for Cardio-Metabolic Immunotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Maximilian Zeyda

Affiliations Clinical Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Christian Doppler Laboratory for Cardio-Metabolic Immunotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Lukas Leitner

Affiliations Clinical Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Christian Doppler Laboratory for Cardio-Metabolic Immunotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Rodrig Marculescu

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Thomas M. Stulnig

thomas.stulnig@meduniwien.ac.at

Affiliations Clinical Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Christian Doppler Laboratory for Cardio-Metabolic Immunotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors declare Solvay Pharma, Austria, as a commercial funder. The corresponding author had a consultancy agreement with a company that purchased Solvay Pharma. No other authors have any relevant declarations relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products, etc.. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TMS BKI. Performed the experiments: BKI LL RM. Analyzed the data: BKI MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RM TMS. Wrote the paper: BKI.