Schmidt, J B
Pedersen, S D
Gregersen, N T
Vestergaard, L
Nielsen, M S
Ritz, C
Madsbad, S
Worm, D
Hansen, D L
Clausen, T R
Rehfeld, J F
Astrup, A
Holst, J J
Sjödin, A
Article History
Received: 20 February 2015
Revised: 18 June 2015
Accepted: 22 July 2015
First Online: 25 August 2015
Competing interests
: Dr Schmidt reported receiving a research grant from University of Copenhagen personal grant support from Twinlab and a travel grant from Cambridge Weight Plan UK. Dr Gregersen reported receiving a travel grant from Cambridge Weight Plan UK, and reported being employed by Novo Nordisk A/S (Dr Gregersen was employed at the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports at the time of the study). Dr Pedersen reported receiving travel grants from Cambridge Weight Plan UK and receiving travel expenses and speakers’ honoraria from Novo Nordisk A/S, Eli Lilly and Sanofi Aventis and speakers’ honoraria from Astra Zeneca. M Søndergaard reported receiving a travel grant from Cambridge Weight Plan UK. T Clausen reported being employed by Novo Nordisk A/S, a former employee by Zealand Pharma A/S and holding stocks in Novo Nordisk A/S and Zealand Pharma A/S. Dr Astrup reported receiving research grants from Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, and consulting fees from Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc., Basic Research, BioCare Copenhagen, BoehringerIngelheimPharma GmbH & Co.KG, Dutch Beer Knowledge Institute, Gelesis, Gerson Lehrman Group, Global Dairy Platform, Jenny Craig, McCain Foods Limited, McDonald’s, Novo Nordisk, Pathway Genomics Corporation, S-Biotek and Twinlab and personal fees from Vivus. Dr Holst reported that he serves as an advisory board member for Glaxo, Smith, Kline, Novo Nordisk and Zealand Pharmaceuticals and receives grants from NOVARTIS and Merck and consulting fees from Novo Nordisk. The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.The Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and the Strategic Research Council of the Capital Area had no role in the collection, management, analysis and interpretation of the study data, and had no part in the preparation of the manuscript.