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"Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest."

"Funding: The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was funded by the NIHR through a career development fellowship (G McCann, CDF 2014-07-045), the British Heart Foundation (BHF) through a Clinical Research Training Fellowship (G Gulsin, CRTF FS/16/47/32190), the Medical Research Council (MRC) through an Interdisciplinary Bridging Award, and Novo Nordisk. The study sponsor of each study included was the University of Leicester, UK. Study funders (Novo Nordisk, the Medical Research Council, NIHR and British Heart Foundation) provided financial support but had no role in study design (other than the external review process), data collection, data analysis, data interpretation or in the writing of reports (including the current manuscript)."