Affiliations

• ¹ Section of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Community Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
• ² Center for Innovative Research for Communities and Clinical Excellence (CiRC2LE), Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan.
• ³ Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Department of Internal Medicine I, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany.
• ⁴ Department for Diagnostic Laboratory Medicine, Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
• ⁶ Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center (DDZ), Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
• ⁷ German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany.
• ⁸ Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA .