About the Authors

Sarah E. Bennett

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah E. Bennett, Jennifer McPeake

Affiliation Nutrition and Metabolism Group, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Jennifer McPeake

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah E. Bennett, Jennifer McPeake

Affiliation Nutrition and Metabolism Group, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

David R. McCance

Affiliation Regional Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom

John G. Manderson

Affiliation Regional Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom

Philip Johnston

Affiliations Nutrition and Metabolism Group, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, Regional Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom

Rachel McGalliard

Affiliation Nutrition and Metabolism Group, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Ann McGinty

a.mcginty@qub.ac.uk

Affiliation Nutrition and Metabolism Group, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM DM JGM. Performed the experiments: SB JM PJ RM. Analyzed the data: AM SB JM. Wrote the paper: AM SB JM.