Yates, Thomas https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5724-5178
Summerfield, Annabel
Razieh, Cameron https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3597-2945
Banerjee, Amitava https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8741-3411
Chudasama, Yogini
Davies, Melanie J.
Gillies, Clare
Islam, Nazrul https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3982-4325
Lawson, Claire
Mirkes, Evgeny https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1474-1734
Zaccardi, Francesco
Khunti, Kamlesh
Nafilyan, Vahé
Article History
Received: 2 July 2021
Accepted: 5 January 2022
First Online: 2 February 2022
Competing interests
: T.Y. is supported by the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and has received funding from Astra-Zeneca for obesity-related research. M.J.D. is supported by the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and has received funding from Astra-Zeneca and Novo Nordisk for obesity-related research. K.K. is Director for the University of Leicester Centre for Ethnic Health Research, Trustee of the South Asian Health Foundation, national NIHR Applied Research Collaborations - East Midlands (ARC-EM) lead for Ethnicity and Diversity and a member of SAGE and Chair of the SAGE subgroup on ethnicity and COVID-19. A.B. has research funding separate to this work from Astra-Zeneca and is a Trustee of the South Asian Health Foundation. Other authors declare no conflicts of interest.