Soares, Ana Goncalves http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2763-4647
Kilpi, Fanny http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3551-2829
Fraser, Abigail http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7741-9470
Nelson, Scott M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9099-3047
Sattar, Naveed http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593
Welsh, Paul I. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7970-3643
Tilling, Kate http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-8926
Lawlor, Deborah A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6793-2262
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medical Research Council (MR/M009351/1, MC_UU_00011/6)
National Institute for Health Research Senior Investigator (NF-0616-10102)
Article History
Received: 16 April 2020
Accepted: 23 October 2020
First Online: 4 December 2020
Competing interests
: DAL has received support from several national and international government and charity research funders and Medtronic Ltd for work unrelated to that presented here. SMN has received speaker’s fees and participated in medical advisory boards for Roche. Roche Diagnostics International provided study reagents free of charge but played no role in analysis of samples, data, or interpretation of results. PW and NS have received grant funding from Roche Diagnostics for an unrelated project. All other authors declare no competing interests.