Ren, Zhewen
Wesselius, Anke
Kooi, M. Eline
van Greevenbroek, Marleen
Dagnelie, Pieter
Berendschot, Tos T. J. M.
Kroon, Abraham A.
Houben, Alfons J. H. M.
Stehouwer, Coen D. A.
Brouwers, Martijn C. G. J.
Article History
Received: 13 December 2024
Accepted: 9 May 2025
First Online: 27 June 2025
Acknowledgements
: We thank all the participants in The Maastricht Study and all the co-authors for contributions. Some of the data were presented as an abstract at the Annual Dutch Diabetes Research Meeting in 2024.
: Data are available from The Maastricht Study for any researcher who meets the criteria for access to confidential data; the corresponding author may be contacted to request data.
: ZR was supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council. The Maastricht Study was supported by the European Regional Development Fund via OP-Zuid, the Province of Limburg, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs (grant 31O.041), Stichting De Weijerhorst (Maastricht, the Netherlands), the Pearl String Initiative Diabetes (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM; Maastricht, the Netherlands), the Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI; Maastricht, the Netherlands), Institute of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM; Maastricht, the Netherlands), Stichting Annadal (Maastricht, the Netherlands) and the Health Foundation Limburg (Maastricht, the Netherlands), and by unrestricted grants from JanssenCilag B.V. (Tilburg, the Netherlands), Novo Nordisk Farma B.V. (Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands), Sanofi-Aventis Netherlands B.V. (Gouda, the Netherlands) and Medtronic (Tolochenaz, Switzerland).
: The authors declare that there are no relationships or activities that might bias, or be perceived to bias, their work.
: ZR, AW, CDAS and MCGJB were involved in conception and design of the study; MEK, MvG, PD, TTJMB, AAK and AJHMH were involved in data acquisition; ZR, AW, CDAS and MCGJB analysed and interpreted data. ZR and MCGJB drafted the article. All authors critically reviewed the article for important intellectual content and approved the final version of the manuscript to be published. MCGJB is the guarantor of this work and, as such, had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.